CHURCHLESS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

churchless

adjective

Definition of churchless

as in unchurched

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Adjective

Diana’s husband, James, is an unchurched priest who preaches love and practices intolerance.

— Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.

— Town & Country, Town & Country, 5 May 2023

Definition of unchurched

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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

Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 June 2026
There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026

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