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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Adjective

The future enterprise may need to be more compute-agnostic, meaning the ability to deploy workloads on resources that enables the best combination of performance, cost, resilience, throughput, security and business outcome.

— Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Featuring fellow genre-agnostic Black women like PinkPantheress and Fousheé, the 12-track set is one of the most enrapturing listens of the year.

— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of agnostic

Adjective

Ripert eventually translated these lessons into a secular book for professional chefs and home cooks alike.

— Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2026
The Middle East has already experimented with Arab nationalism, state socialism, secular authoritarianism, monarchy, military rule, and political Islam.

— Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of secular

Adjective

Up to that point, America’s external enemy—the godless Soviets—gave the movement coherence and urgency.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
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

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

The publication led to global outrage, with many Muslims finding the depictions highly offensive and blasphemous.

— USA Today, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
The image of him, his attire a blasphemous betrayal of the wholesome fun a clown costume promises, and with vibrant, colorful balloons in his hand, lingers in our minds for a long time.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 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

Adjective

Orphaned, the children are taken in by their irreverent aunt Berta, and begin a new life in the big city in a house frequented by intellectuals and where all kinds of political conspiracies are hatched.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
The 47-year-old Glasgow native has been in massive franchises like X-Men and The Chronicles of Narnia as well as award-winning dramas like The Last King of Scotland and irreverent indies like Filth.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of irreverent

Adjective

This salad was a bit heretical—a hybridization of Roman puntarelle dressing and Venetian radicchios.

— Tamar Adler, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026
Bell stars as heretic priest John Ball, while Garfield portrays a character called Ploughman, a grieving farmer who unintentionally finds himself in a leadership position.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of heretical

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