as in atheist
a person who does not believe in something (such as a religious belief)
a memorial service that is suitable for both believers and nonbelievers The preacher is trying to convince the nonbelievers.
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Recent Examples of nonbeliever
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonbeliever
Noun
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This is even true of the cold, hard atheists—the effective altruists.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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Kelson is a man of science and an atheist, but not without a touch of mysticism.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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For those infidels keeping score at home, exactly one year ago today, Carrnac gazed into his crystal ball and presciently predicted both the acquittal of Karen Read and the conviction of Tania Fernandes Anderson.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
31 Dec. 2025
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The group follows an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Nonbeliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeliever. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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