Irreligious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irreligious \Ir`re*li"gious\, a. [L. irreligiosus: cf. F.
     irr['e]ligieux.]
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     1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives
        or principles; ungodly. Cf. {Impious}.
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              Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the
              impious and irreligious.              --South.
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     2. Indicating a lack of religion; profane; wicked; as,
        irreligious speech.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irreligious
       adj : hostile or indifferent to religion [ant: {religious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "irreligious":
     amoral, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, creedless,
     disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, godless,
     heretical, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreverent, lapsed,
     minimifidian, nonbelieving, nonreligious, nullifidian, profanatory,
     profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, repudiative,
     sacrilegious, sinful, un-Christly, unangelic, unbelieving,
     unchristian, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, undevout,
     undutiful, ungodly, unholy, unmoral, unreligious, unrighteous,
     unsaintly, wicked, without faith