Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Hostile or indifferent to religion; ungodly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not religious; without religious principles; contemning religion; impious; ungodly.
- Profane; wicked: as, irreligious conduct.
- Synonyms Irreligious, Godless, Ungodly, Unrighteous, Impious, Profane, Atheistic, are words expressing the position or conduct of those who deny the existence of a God or refuse to obey his commandments. Irreligious means destitute of religion as a principle, contemning religion and not checked by its restraints; godless, acknowledging no God, disregarding God and therefore his commandments, sinful, wicked; ungodly, essentially the same as
godless , but stronger as to both feeling and action; unrighteous, disregarding right, contrary to right and by implication (right being with this word viewed chiefly as the personal will of God) not only wrong or unjust, but sinful; impious, irreverent or contemptuous toward God, defiant or wanton in irreligion; profane, impious by word or deed, irreverent or blasphemous; atheistic, holding the doctrine of the non-existence of a God (applied, on account, of the natural tendency of men to deny the existence of a God where their spirit or manner of life is condemned by the teachings of the Christian religion, to whatever would be thus condemned or whoever thus denies). Seeatheous , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf.
Impious . - adjective Indicating a lack of religion; profane; wicked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Contrary to
religious beliefs and practices. - adjective Describing a conscious rejection of religion.
- adjective Having no relation to
religion ;non -religious.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective hostile or indifferent to religion
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Examples
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No. Implying that all the arts and sciences are irreligious is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are not about the law.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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I don’t think acceptance of irreligious is anything like the acceptance of same-sex marriage, actually.
The Fort Hood shooting suspect’s religion is not the point « Dating Jesus 2009
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Forty thousand word irreligious John Carpenter homage?
Mind Meld, Matelotage and Mutiny Hal Duncan 2009
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Then the irreligious son of a religious father should be called irreligious?
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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Yet as I study the character of the samurai of the Tokugawa period, who alone may be called the irreligious of the olden times, I see good reasons for holding that, though rejecting Buddhism, they were religious at heart.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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SOCRATES: Then the irreligious son of a religious father should be called irreligious?
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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We certainly have a long ways to go, but the 16 percent of Americans who self-identify as irreligious certainly sounds good, right?
SocraticGadfly 2009
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"irreligious" - or actively against religion - after virtually none of them fit that description as teenagers.
unknown title 2009
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'irreligious' - or actively against religion - after virtually none of them fit that description as teenagers., most of the club's roughly 30 members are 'former' somethings, mostly Christians.
Matthew Yglesias 2009
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"irreligious" - or actively against religion - after virtually none of them fit that description as teenagers.
News 2009
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