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单词 irreligious
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Definition of irreligious in English:

irreligious

adjective 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

    an irreligious man

    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

Derivatives

  • irreligion

  • noun ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒənˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • Indifference 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.
  • irreligionist

  • nounˌɪrəˈlɪdʒ(ə)nɪstˌɪ(r)rəˈlɪdʒ(ə)nəst
  • irreligiously

  • 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.
  • irreligiousness

  • 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.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin irreligiosus, from in- 'not' + religiosus (see religious).

Rhymes

litigious, prestigious, prodigious, religious, sacrilegious

Definition of irreligious in US English:

irreligious

adjectiveˌɪ(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

    an irreligious world

    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

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin irreligiosus, from in- ‘not’ + religiosus (see religious).

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