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Meaning of "antitheist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTITHEIST

antitheist  [ˌæntɪˈθiːɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTITHEIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antitheist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTITHEIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antitheism

Antitheism is active opposition to theism. The term has had a range of applications; in secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to organized religion or to the belief in any deity, while in a theistic context, it sometimes refers to opposition to a specific god or gods.

Definition of antitheist in the English dictionary

The definition of antitheist in the dictionary is a person opposed to belief in god or gods.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTITHEIST


accompanyist
əˈkʌmpəniːɪst
autotheist
ˌɔːtəʊˈθiːɪst
bluest
ˈbluːɪst
canoeist
kəˈnuːɪst
deist
ˈdiːɪst
ditheist
daɪˈθiːɪst
henotheist
ˈhenəʊˌθiːɪst
hygeist
ˈhaɪdʒiːɪst
hygieist
ˈhaɪdʒiːɪst
hylotheist
ˌhaɪləˈθiːɪst
misoneist
ˌmɪsəʊˈniːɪst
monotheist
ˈmɒnəʊˌθiːɪst
mythopoeist
ˌmɪθəʊˈpiːɪst
nontheist
ˌnɒnˈθiːɪst
panentheist
ˌpænenˈθiːɪst
pharmacopoeist
ˌfɑːməkəˈpiːɪst
polytheist
ˈpɒlɪˌθiːɪst
scarabaeist
ˌskærəˈbiːɪst
tattooist
təˈtuːɪst
theist
ˈθiːɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTITHEIST

antitank
antitarnish
antitax
antitechnology
antiterrorism
antiterrorist
antithalian
antitheft
antitheism
antitheistic
antitheoretical
antitheses
antithesis
antithet
antithetic
antithetical
antithetically
antithrombin
antithrombotic
antithyroid

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTITHEIST

ableist
ageist
atheist
breist
cueist
feist
fideist
geist
heist
Kleist
pantheist
poltergeist
sizeist
tritheist
Zeist
zeitgeist

Synonyms and antonyms of antitheist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antitheist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTITHEIST

Find out the translation of antitheist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antitheist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antitheist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无神论者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antitheist
570 millions of speakers

English

antitheist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antitheist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

antitheist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

antitheist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antitheist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antitheist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antitheist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antitheist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

antitheist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antitheist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도킨스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antitheist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antitheist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

antitheist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरोधक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antiteizm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antiteista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antitheist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

antitheist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antitheist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

antitheist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antitheist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antitheist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antitheist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antitheist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTITHEIST»

The term «antitheist» is normally little used and occupies the 121.959 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTITHEIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antitheist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antitheist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antitheist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTITHEIST»

Discover the use of antitheist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antitheist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The North American Magazine
Here our author becomes the broacher of anew distinction in theology, a distinction between the atheist and antitheist. The atheist is one who unbelieves a God, and the antitheist, he who disbelieves him. The atheist does not labour to  ...
2
The Ladies' Repository
Is not this true of every antitheist, when he invests the material universe with the attribute of eternity ? Must not that which is essentially eternal be God? "To believe in an eternal existence is to believe in absoluteness, self-existence, ...
3
Reading Philosophy of Religion
... supreme being? What better way to inflict deep and serious harm on people than by deceiving them in this manner! 6. Set out an antitheist version of the argument from miracles, akin to the antitheist version of the argument from religious ...
Graham Oppy, Michael Scott, 2010
4
The Seventh Vial, Or the Time of Trouble Begun, as Shown in ...
An antitheist is one opposed to God. Voltaire was an antitheist; that is, one who deliberately and avowedly opposed and hated God; who swore in his blasphemy that he would dethrone Him; whose letters closed with the promise that he would  ...
John CUMMING (D.D., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court.), 1870
5
Signs of the Times: Or, Present, Past, and Future
He was not an atheist, but an antitheist — one full of conscious enmity to God, opposed to him, and determined, at all hazards, and whatever might be the issue, to resist him. But many that profess to be Christians, in their practical life, are ...
John Cumming, 1855
6
Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
Hitchens himself has stressed that “I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, ...
Bernard Schweizer, 2010
7
Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion
However, the challenge to theism here becomes explicit and radical, for the antitheist argues that the theist has an illusion. Hence the question becomes twofold: On what basis does the antitheist build his argument? And how does the theist ...
Daniel Guerri re, 1990
8
Signs of the Times. Part II. [Seven lectures.]
An antitheist is one opposed to God. Voltaire was an antitheist, that is, one who deliberately and avowedly opposed and hated God; who swore in his blasphemy that he would dethrone him; whose letters closed with the execration that he ...
John CUMMING (D.D., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court.), 1854
9
Imaginal Reality: Journey to the Voids
7. Pseudo-Neo-Gnostic-AntiTheist-Anarcho-Romanticism. An. Image. That. Made . Sense. at. the. Time. The walls and ceiling of the dorm room display a riot of tempera paint and crayon creations. Cosmic wombs, serpents, and tangles of ...
Aaron B. Daniels, 2011
10
Heythrop journal
(5) Adults and Children: Children's points of view are included in adults' point of view. Now, in the following, I show that those examples fail to motivate Mander's objection to the antitheist argument. (1), (2) and (3) are simply irrelevant to the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTITHEIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antitheist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bonhoeffer is widely beloved. But to fully understand him we should …
He has been quoted by leaders and thinkers from across the globe, including President George W. Bush, the late antitheist Christopher ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
2
US prosecutors seek death in Muslim college student murders
He is not known to have specifically criticized Islam, but was an ardent antitheist, according to his Facebook postings and comments reportedly ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
3
Bad Thoughts About Allah After Reverting to Islam
I read about Islam a year ago when I was a Christian who actually turned to be antitheist. At that time, out of anger, I said that even if Islam was ... «Onislam.net, Mar 15»
4
Religion's new atheist scapegoat: Why the Chapel Hill shootings …
... who declared, in his 2001 book “Letters to a Young Contrarian,” “I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that ... «Salon, Mar 15»
5
Dear defenders of Mohan Bhagwat, Mother Teresa's critic Hitchens …
He was a champion of the word “antitheist” instead. He would have been richly amused by the irony of his words being used to defend the RSS ... «Firstpost, Feb 15»
6
3 Muslims killed in North Carolina by 'antitheist'
CAIRO: Three Muslim residents of North Carolina were shot dead Wednesday at a complex near the University of North Carolina campus in the ... «The Cairo Post, Feb 15»
7
So What's An “Anti-Theist” Anyways?
However, he said, “An antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence” for the fact that ... «Vocativ, Feb 15»
8
Donald Clarke: Shock and awe over Stephen Fry's 'God' comments …
But we have moved on from the era when antitheist opinions were worth remarking on. There are few lessons here about religion. There are ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
9
Beliefs and bullying
... Richard Dawkins-esque antitheist. When things like this happen, there should be solidarity within the community – pretty much every Pagan, ... «Patheos, Jan 15»
10
Antitheism and the Art of the "Hitch Slap"
The aggressive antitheist point-of-view that came to dominate Hitchens's writings by the turn of the century was arrived at by personal as well as ... «PopMatters, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Antitheist [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/antitheist>. Jun 2026 ».
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