atheistic

adjective

Definition of atheisticnext
as in agnostic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atheistic
  1. agnostic
  2. secular
  3. godless
  4. irreligious
  5. blasphemous
  6. impious
  7. irreverent
  8. heretical
Adjective
  • According to a report from The Pew Center For Research, only 3% of African-American people identified as atheist or agnostic in 2021.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The sitcom, which stars Adam Brody (who is Jewish) as a character named Noah and Kristen Bell as Joanne, tracks the budding romance of a modern rabbi and an agnostic podcaster.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of agnostic
Adjective
  • Explore Hendersonville 13 of 18 Cary, North Carolina A testament to the city’s enthusiasm for the holidays, each year, Cary doubles its number of oversize ornaments—these decorations champion its diverse population, with nods to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and secular celebrations.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Hals, too, painted the faces of a new secular élite that sought to flatter itself with the permanence of oil painting; Hals, too, caught the abundance as well as the wobbling precarity of his clients’ world, the sense that all this could tumble down tomorrow.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Rushdie’s fourth fictional novel ran into a global controversy shortly after its publication in September 1988, as some Muslims saw passages about Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous.
    Reuters, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.
    Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of blasphemous
Adjective
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Definition of impious
Adjective
  • Paul Smith, on the other hand, is known for his irreverent creativity—bold stripes, playful details, and a knack for turning the unexpected into the extraordinary.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Deadline told you first that Lopez was set to continue her mass-appealing movie streak with the streamer on this irreverent comedy project that 2x Ted Lasso Emmy winning Goldstein co-wrote with Joe Kelly.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of irreverent
Adjective
  • That conclusion, supported by the highly respected and circumspect Collins, was considered heretical.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Thirst won the Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for the Palme d’Or, which is some great prestige for this heretical South Korean horror drama.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of heretical
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