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Noun freethinker has 1 sense
- freethinker(n = noun.person) deist - a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it; Array is a kind of nonreligious person
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freethinker, n.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. [1913 Webster]
"Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child."
Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
freethinker, n. a person who rejects dogma or authority, esp. in religious belief.
Derivative
freethinking n. & adj.
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freethinker
big person, broad-gauge person, ecumenicist, esprit fort, free lance, free spirit, free trader, humanist, independent, individualist, isolationist, latitudinarian, liberal, liberalist, libertarian, libertine, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, rugged individualist, secular humanist, third force, third worldROGET THESAURUS
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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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