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antireligious

antireligious adjective: opposed to religion.

Adjective

antireligious (comparative more antireligious, superlative most antireligious)

  1. Opposed to religion.
    • The many nonbelievers he interviewed[…] were anything but antireligious, for example.2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2022
    Antonyms:
    antisecular

Synonyms of antireligious

Antonyms

Forms of antireligious

comparativemore antireligious
superlativemost antireligious
alternative formanti-religious

Origin of antireligious

From anti- + religious.

Words formed from antireligious

Questions about antireligious

What does antireligious mean?
Antireligious means opposed to religion.
What part of speech is antireligious?
Antireligious is an adjective.

Words near antireligious in the dictionary

  1. antirelativism
  2. antirelativistic
  3. antirelaxation
  4. antirelief
  5. antireligion
  6. antireligious
  7. antireligiousness
  8. Antiremonstrant
  9. Antiremonstrants
  10. antiremoval
  11. antirenin

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