Atheist - English meaning

noun

A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of god.

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Although not all skeptics are agnostics, as an agnostic himself dr groves sees no evidence for acce…

adjective

Relating to agnostics or agnosticism.

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So that wrestling is characteristic of my religious or agnostic poetry, but not necessarily everyth…

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Someone who believes that it is impossible to know whether or not god exists

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A person who questions or lacks faith in something; a sceptic.

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He had proved all his doubters wrong

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Someone who doubts

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Critics and doubters

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A person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those concerning religious belief.

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The religious freedom that enabled protestants and catholics to live in harmony made the netherland…

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Someone who forms their own opinions and beliefs, especially about religion or politics, rather than just accepting what is officially or commonly believed and taught

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A person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a christian, jew, or muslim) as regarded by those who do.

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My brother and i were raised, as my grandma puts it, as heathens

adjective

Relating to heathens.

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Heathen practices

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(used, esp. in the past, of people or their way of life, activities, and ideas) having no religion, or belonging to a religion that is not christianity, judaism, or islam

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Those folks are heathens.

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A person believing in or practising religious heresy.

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It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, o…

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A person who has beliefs that are opposed to the official belief of a church and that the church considers wrong

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A person who has no religion or whose religion is not that of the majority.

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A crusade against infidels and heretics

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Adhering to a religion other than that of the majority.

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The infidel foe

noun

A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.

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His image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth

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Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.

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His more libertine impulses

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A person, usually a man, who has few moral principles and has sexual relationships with many people

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She considers him an arrogant, dandified libertine., the infamous libertine casanova was more compl…

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A person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.

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It is impossible to argue against a nihilist

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Someone who believes that all political and religious organizations are bad, or that there are no principles or beliefs that have any meaning or can be true

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The overwhelming majority of atheists are not nihilists., the character she is playing is a moral n…

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A person who has no religious beliefs

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Someone who does not believe in the existence of a god or gods

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I prefer to call myself a nontheist rather than an atheist as it sounds less dismissive., it's diff…

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A person having no faith or religious belief.

adjective

Having no faith or religious belief.

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(especially in historical contexts) a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions.

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The incoming germanic peoples were pagans

adjective

A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.

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A muslim majority had to live in close proximity to large communities of christians and pagans

adjective

Belonging to or used in a religion that worships many gods

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Those altars were used in pagan worship.

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A non-christian, especially a muslim.

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A person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.

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This argument failed to convince the sceptics

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Another term for sceptical.

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A person who doubts the truth or value of an idea or belief

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People say it can cure colds, but i'm a bit of a sceptic., to convince the sceptics

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Someone who has no religious beliefs, or who does not follow a particular religion.

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I am english, born in britain, but i am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., becaus…