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atheistic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective atheistic has 2 senses
- atheistic(s = adj.all) atheistical, unbelieving - rejecting any belief in gods; Array Derived forms noun atheism2, noun atheism1, noun atheist1
- atheistic(a = adj.pert) atheist, atheistical - related to or characterized by or given to atheism; "atheist leanings" Derived forms noun atheism2, noun atheism1, noun atheist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
atheistic, a.
- Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. [1913 Webster]"Atheistical explications of natural effects." [1913 Webster]
- Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
atheistic
apostate, atheist, backsliding, blasphemous, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, gentile, goyish, heathen, impious, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, misbelieving, non-Christian, non-Jewish, non-Mohammedan, non-Mormon, non-Moslem, non-Muhammadan, non-Muslim, nullifidian, pagan, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, sacrilegious, unbelieving, unchristian, uncircumcised, undutifulROGET THESAURUS
atheistic
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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