irreligious
/ɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs
/adjective
Indifferent or hostile to religion: an irreligious man...
- There are those who take the cover of religion to commit irreligious acts.
- Our differences - male or female, religious or irreligious, rich or poor - matter not at all.
- I have described the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia as a religious war fought by irreligious people.
Synonyms
atheistic, unbelieving, non-believing, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarian, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan;
immoral, wicked, sinful, morally wrong, evil, bad, iniquitous, corrupt, unrighteous, sacrilegious, blasphemous, irreverent, depraved, degenerate, reprobate, vice-ridden, debauched, dissolute, perverted, dissipated, intemperate, decadent, unprincipled, erring, fallen, impure, sullied, tainted
rare peccable, nullifidian
Derivatives
irreligion
/ noun ...- What is being taught is rather leading to irreligion and immorality.
- He did not see it as requiring neutrality on the part of government between religion and irreligion.
- As its name suggests, the test prohibits the state from ‘endorsing’ religion over irreligion.
irreligionist
irreligiously
- He was irreligiously spiritual, earthy but ethical.
- More irreligiously, he adds, the city was founded by Satan.
- It was outrageous that young Hindus should mark - however irreligiously - a day named after a Christian saint.
irreligiousness
- Through its irreligiousness, Holland runs the risk of becoming a backwater, van der Veer argues.
- It is from this source that sin and irreligiousness flow, together with much misery.
- Old prejudices, particularly about agnostics, remain - irreligiousness is seen less as a positive choice and more of a cop-out from someone who hasn't made up his or her mind yet.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin irreligiosus, from in- 'not' + religiosus (see religious).