Freethinker - 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 renounces a religious or political belief or principle.

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After fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith

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Abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.

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An apostate roman catholic

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Someone who has given up their religion or left a political party

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A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of god or gods.

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He is a committed atheist

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Someone who believes that god does not exist

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Atheistic books and articles

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A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.

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She intends to prove the disbelievers wrong

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A person who dissents.

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After all, the first amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those wi…

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Someone who dissents

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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 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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An advocate or follower of the principles of humanism.

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Efforts by secular humanists to oppose creationists

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Relating to or supporting the principles of humanism.

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Humanist philosophers

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A person who believes in humanism (= the idea that people do not need a god or religion to satisfy their spiritual and emotional needs)

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She is a liberal and a humanist., i respected him as a man of exceptional moral stature and a human…

adjective

Free from outside control; not subject to another's authority.

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An independent nuclear deterrent

noun

An independent person or body.

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One of the few independents left in the music business

adjective

Not influenced or controlled by other people but free to make your own decisions

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An independent thinker, congress called for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigat…

noun

A person who is independent and self-reliant.

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A rugged individualist driven to succeed

adjective

Relating to or characterized by the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

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Individualist attitudes

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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…

noun

An unorthodox or independent-minded person.

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He's the maverick of the fashion scene

adjective

Unorthodox.

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A maverick detective

noun

A person who thinks and acts independently of and differently from others

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She is considered a political maverick.

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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 member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

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Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

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Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

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Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

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A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

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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.

noun

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…