antireligious
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antireligious (comparative more antireligious, superlative most antireligious)
- Opposed to religion.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:antireligious
- Antonym: antisecular
- 2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in New York Times[1]:
- The many nonbelievers he interviewed […] were anything but antireligious, for example.
Usage notes
[edit]- anti-religious is slightly more common overall than antireligious; it is at least two times as common in the British corpus.[1] Merriam-Webster,[2] OED and Cambridge[3] have anti-religious. Collins[4] and Cambridge[3] have antireligious.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]opposed to religion
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References
[edit]- ^ anti-religious, antireligious at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ “anti-religious”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “anti-religious”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- ^ “antireligious”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “antireligious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “anti-religious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.