ATHEISTIC Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

atheistic

adjective

Definition of atheistic

as in agnostic

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Recent Examples of atheistic His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website. — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026 But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews. — Jacqui Frost, The Conversation, 11 Jan. 2024

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Huffman, who represents a sprawling slice of Northern California, reaching from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, is one of just four members (out of more than 500) who are openly agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Drawdowns 'faster and more severe' For one thing, there has always been a popular fascination with mechanical, forced or price-agnostic sources of supply and demand for stocks.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Definition of agnostic

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China’s multi-year slowdown, combined with the steady, secular shift toward alternative energy sources, continues to dull long-term demand and has fundamentally altered global consumption projections.

— Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 July 2026
The risk with any attempt to explain religion to a secular audience is playing into the misapprehension that American Christianity is monolithic.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026

Definition of secular

Adjective

Sometimes this was committed to good, such as the Marshall Plan and the Peace Corps, and sometimes to ill, as in a series of military blunders meant to quash godless Communism.

— Jim Rasenberger, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 June 2026

Definition of godless

Adjective

Because materialism had an irreligious connotation, Hattem says it was left out of the national conversation until the Gilded Age of the 1920s, when people start saying the quiet part out loud.

— Cari Shane, USA Today, 25 June 2026
This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026

Definition of irreligious

Adjective

Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
This way of approaching the story would help make its portrait of Jesus all the more human, and, to some, all the more blasphemous.

— Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026

Definition of blasphemous

Adjective

Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.

— Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
While no formal announcement has been made to update its longstanding alcohol ban, Andrew Leber of Tulane University said this is in line with the Kingdom’s past approach to such potentially impious reforms.

— Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

Definition of impious

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But the pair later bonded over golf and what Graham described as a mutual and irreverent sense of humor.

— Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Marie Antoinette was bold, beautiful, irreverent and hugely influential, and to revisit it now through Eleanor Coppola’s eyes, as both a filmmaker and a mother, is incredibly moving.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 8 July 2026

Definition of irreverent

Adjective

In the 14th century, Bibles in English became associated with John Wycliffe, a priest who criticized corruption in the Catholic Church, and whose views on Holy Communion the church had declared heretical.

— Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
This point can sound almost heretical in modern healthcare discourse, where prevention is frequently framed as both morally superior and financially inevitable.

— Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of heretical

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