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Antonyms for religious
rɪˈlɪdʒ əsre·li·gious

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. religious

    Antonyms:
    impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane

    Synonyms:
    pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred

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  1. religiousadjective

    a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

    Antonyms:
    unbelieving, nonchurchgoing, heathen, lapsed, nonobservant, atheistic, profane, ethnic, heathenish, atheistical, secular, pagan, irreligious, unscrupulous

  2. religious, spiritualadjective

    concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

    "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"

    Antonyms:
    irreligious, secular, nonobservant, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, heathenish, atheistic, pagan, ethnic, atheistical, profane, heathen, lapsed, unscrupulous

    Synonyms:
    ghostly, spiritual, spectral, apparitional, unearthly, phantasmal, ghostlike

  3. religiousadjective

    having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity

    "a religious man"; "religious attitude"

    Antonyms:
    secular, atheistic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, nonobservant, pagan, irreligious, profane, heathenish, ethnic, atheistical, heathen, lapsed

    Synonyms:
    spiritual

  4. religiousadjective

    of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows

    "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"

    Antonyms:
    secular, nonobservant, heathen, lapsed, atheistical, heathenish, unbelieving, atheistic, pagan, profane, ethnic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, irreligious

    Synonyms:
    spiritual

  5. religiousadjective

    extremely scrupulous and conscientious

    "religious in observing the rules of health"

    Antonyms:
    atheistical, unscrupulous, secular, unbelieving, pagan, heathen, profane, ethnic, atheistic, lapsed, nonobservant, heathenish, irreligious, nonchurchgoing

    Synonyms:
    spiritual

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  1. religiousadjective

    Synonyms:
    pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional, strict, exact, scrupulous, conscientious

How to use religious in a sentence?

  1. Amber Duke:

    Religious liberty requires protecting BOTH the right of free exercise for individuals of every faith and the right to remain free from government coercion and promotion of religion.

  2. Stephen King:

    The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

  3. Barbara Bodine:

    Like their Iraqi counterparts going back to post-2003 Iraq, they target Zaydi religious and historic sites, not just government forces as AQAP largely has.

  4. Osama Mohamed:

    Before this incident he was religious like any other Egyptian but he did not hate the men from state security or Egyptian Army and he had many friends in the police, after this incident he cut all of them off except for two.

  5. Yakhi Balak:

    The process has been managed and supervised by the family of the victims themselves, the family coordinates with their religious leaders with the moral support of local Yazidi communities.

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#4285ethnic
#11941pagan
#12654secular
#32543profane
#33116heathen
#40826unscrupulous
#41863lapsed
#42312sceptical
#52664ungodly
#63931blasphemous
#76895atheistic
#91005unbelieving
#92325impious
#127982sacrilegious
#155261irreligious

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