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irreligious

[ ir-i-lij-uhs ]

adjective

  1. not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
  2. showing or characterized by a lack of religion.
  3. showing indifference or hostility to religion:

    irreligious statements.

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Other Word Forms

  • r·gdzܲ· adverb
  • r·gdzܲ·Ա ····Dz··ٲ [ir-i-lij-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of irreligious1

From the Latin word ōܲ, dating back to 1555–65. See ir- 2, religious
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Example Sentences

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As his second-in-command was quickly meeting with Pope Francis, the most irreligious man in America was using the occasion of Easter to slam his political enemies.

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But those themes do not satisfy certain paradoxical values that also make up the conservative mindset: a rather irreligious appetite for worldly possessions, and the desire for a pseudo-empirical justification for greed.

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They are not going to hold him to account for his heresies or irreligious pronouncements, because they don’t truly believe he is religious anyway, and they don’t care.

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Trump, being so obviously irreligious, may initially seem like an odd choice to turn the U.S. into a Christian version of a country like Iran, where laws are based on far-right interpretations of religious texts.

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“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” said Elmihy.

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irreligionˌˈdzܲ