nonbeliever

noun

non·​be·​liev·​er ˌnän-bə-ˈlē-vər 

: a person who is not a believer

… a well-known nonbeliever in holiday sales or discounts …

—Seung Lee

a nonbeliever in ghosts

especially : atheist

… had grown up in the West and gone to college as a nonbeliever in the Bible Belt …

—Tim Keown

Examples of nonbeliever in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Meanwhile, nonbelievers create humorous content, featuring videos of empty clothes draped over furniture or laid out on the street, suggesting they were abandoned by those who were raptured. —Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025

And that fixed identity stems from the fact that every ideology, every doctrine, will have believers and nonbelievers. —Sean Illing, Vox, 12 May 2025

Several of these involve a furtive religious cult known as the Scars — its adherents have a way of pussyfooting through the forest and doing absolutely horrible things to nonbelievers. —Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025

Apparitions, visions, and prophecies are the miracles that nonbelievers are most likely to greet with skepticism, and these are precisely the types of miracles that the Vatican has now largely relegated to an epistemological limbo. —Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1649, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonbeliever

• unbeliever
• achiever
• believer
• deceiver
• perceiver
• receiver
• reliever
• retriever
• transceiver
• cleaver
• fever
• leaver