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Definition of irreligious in English: irreligiousadjective ɪrɪˈlɪdʒəsˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒəs Indifferent or hostile to religion, or having no religious beliefs. 漠视宗教的;敌视宗教的;反对宗教的 漠视宗教的世界。 Example sentencesExamples - People, religious and irreligious, are correct to insist that we practise what we preach.
- I have many friends, both deeply religious and deeply irreligious, whom I much respect.
- There are those who take the cover of religion to commit irreligious acts.
- I have described the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia as a religious war fought by irreligious people.
- The Czech Republic is largely irreligious, but the Slovak Republic is predominantly Roman Catholic.
- In an irreligious society, capital punishment teaches something else: that the state has absolute power over life.
- Shetland is the most irreligious place in the UK.
- Peter said that the drama, shot in a documentary style, was more irreligious than religious.
- The danger is not religion but fanaticism, which can equally be displayed by atheist communists and by irreligious nationalists.
- When three fourths of the whole world become irreligious, the situation is converted into hell for the animals.
- I am so irreligious that atheism seems a religion to me.
- Our differences - male or female, religious or irreligious, rich or poor - matter not at all.
- A traditionalist might easily jump to the conclusion that the show's second half is irreligious.
- Even if a person has left the Jewish fold, or is completely irreligious, it is still forbidden to help or cause him to sin.
- Twenty years later, Justice Joseph Story likewise wrote that a father could lose his rights for ‘atheistical and irreligious principles.’
- Nietzsche was perhaps the most colorful of the irreligious critics of the modern hopes for an individualistic morality that is applicable to all.
- Governments gradually granted equal civil status to those holding a variety of religious and irreligious beliefs - a key condition for creating secular states.
- Between a religious person and irreligious person there are many common meeting points which we require to explore ’, he observed.
- Apparently it's a book of ‘extraordinary power’ which Dr. Williams hopes will spread ‘in epidemic profusion through religious and irreligious alike’.
- Does that mean that they're irreligious or are they not spiritual?
Synonyms atheistic, unbelieving, non-believing, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarian, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan
Derivativesnoun ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒənˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒ(ə)n mass nounIndifference or hostility to religion, or lack of religious belief. they can't allow themselves to be seen as the party of irreligion Example sentencesExamples - He did not see it as requiring neutrality on the part of government between religion and irreligion.
- As its name suggests, the test prohibits the state from ‘endorsing’ religion over irreligion.
- What is being taught is rather leading to irreligion and immorality.
nounˌɪrəˈlɪdʒ(ə)nɪstˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒ(ə)nəst adverb He was irreligiously spiritual, earthy but ethical. Example sentencesExamples - More irreligiously, he adds, the city was founded by Satan.
- It was outrageous that young Hindus should mark - however irreligiously - a day named after a Christian saint.
noun It is from this source that sin and irreligiousness flow, together with much misery. Example sentencesExamples - Just as Bush wore his religion on his sleeve, so Kerry wore his irreligiousness on his.
- Old prejudices, particularly about agnostics, remain - irreligiousness is seen less as a positive choice and more of a cop-out from someone who hasn't made up his or her mind yet.
- Secularism can never mean irreligiousness in society.
- Through its irreligiousness, Holland runs the risk of becoming a backwater, van der Veer argues.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin irreligiosus, from in- 'not' + religiosus (see religious). Rhymeslitigious, prestigious, prodigious, religious, sacrilegious Definition of irreligious in US English: irreligiousadjectiveˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒəsˌi(r)rəˈlijəs Indifferent or hostile to religion, or having no religious beliefs. 漠视宗教的;敌视宗教的;反对宗教的 漠视宗教的世界。 Example sentencesExamples - A traditionalist might easily jump to the conclusion that the show's second half is irreligious.
- Our differences - male or female, religious or irreligious, rich or poor - matter not at all.
- Nietzsche was perhaps the most colorful of the irreligious critics of the modern hopes for an individualistic morality that is applicable to all.
- Peter said that the drama, shot in a documentary style, was more irreligious than religious.
- Shetland is the most irreligious place in the UK.
- I have described the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia as a religious war fought by irreligious people.
- The danger is not religion but fanaticism, which can equally be displayed by atheist communists and by irreligious nationalists.
- Apparently it's a book of ‘extraordinary power’ which Dr. Williams hopes will spread ‘in epidemic profusion through religious and irreligious alike’.
- People, religious and irreligious, are correct to insist that we practise what we preach.
- When three fourths of the whole world become irreligious, the situation is converted into hell for the animals.
- Between a religious person and irreligious person there are many common meeting points which we require to explore ’, he observed.
- I am so irreligious that atheism seems a religion to me.
- I have many friends, both deeply religious and deeply irreligious, whom I much respect.
- Twenty years later, Justice Joseph Story likewise wrote that a father could lose his rights for ‘atheistical and irreligious principles.’
- There are those who take the cover of religion to commit irreligious acts.
- Governments gradually granted equal civil status to those holding a variety of religious and irreligious beliefs - a key condition for creating secular states.
- The Czech Republic is largely irreligious, but the Slovak Republic is predominantly Roman Catholic.
- Does that mean that they're irreligious or are they not spiritual?
- Even if a person has left the Jewish fold, or is completely irreligious, it is still forbidden to help or cause him to sin.
- In an irreligious society, capital punishment teaches something else: that the state has absolute power over life.
Synonyms atheistic, unbelieving, non-believing, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarian, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin irreligiosus, from in- ‘not’ + religiosus (see religious). |