Atheist

Quick meaning: Atheist is a noun meaning (religion) A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

Meaning

(religion) A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).
2. (sometimes proscribed) A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person.
3. Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
4. (transitive, very rare) To make someone an atheist.

Example Sentences

For instance, in Morocco, while a Muslim man is free to marry a non-Muslim woman, provided she is Christian or Jewish, but not Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist, a Muslim woman is only supposed to marry a Muslim man.

Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.

In her chapter, “Freedom of and Freedom from Religion: Atheist Involvement in Legal Cases,” Lori G. Beaman presents her reflections on the various claims made by atheists in the legal arena, such as the objection to prayers in municipal[…]

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Word Forms

• atheists
• atheisting
• atheisted

Synonyms for atheist

Depending on context, synonyms include nontheist, atheitard, gaytheist, atheistic, atheistical.

Antonyms for atheist

Common opposites include theist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include atheism, infidel, nonbeliever, heathen, apatheist, athiest.

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