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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The company describes it as a platform-agnostic weapon designed to engage Group 1–3 unmanned aircraft, which broadly cover smaller drones through larger tactical UAS.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
While his 20th-century contemporaries struggled to shake off the dogma of the Bauhaus, the dominant design ideology in Europe from the 1920s through the end of World War II, Gio Ponti remained blissfully agnostic to any single idea of utopia.

— Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of agnostic

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Some younger attendees on Saturday said Leo's humane tone and emphasis on care for the vulnerable resonated beyond the faithful in their secular country as people grapple with a turbulent world.

— ISABEL DEBRE, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
The most vociferous opposition has come from Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing secular Yisrael Beiteinu party.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of secular

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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

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

The host was once positioned as an irreverent comedian whose political satire was guided by his no-BS take on Capitol Hill and American culture.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Above Average is billed as an irreverent look at celebrity culture, corporate power and society’s obsession with being exceptional.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of irreverent

Adjective

Callixtus condemned and excommunicated Sabellius, the most prominent champion of Modalistic Monarchianism, called Sabellianism, a heretical doctrine that denied personal distinctions within the Godhead.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
This salad was a bit heretical—a hybridization of Roman puntarelle dressing and Venetian radicchios.

— Tamar Adler, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026

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