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Meaning of "irreligious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRRELIGIOUS

irreligious  [ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRRELIGIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irreligious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IRRELIGIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Irreligion

Irreligion is the absence of religion, an indifference towards religion, a rejection of religion, or hostility towards religion. When characterized as the rejection of religious belief, it includes explicit atheism, religious dissidence, and secular humanism. When characterized as hostility towards religion, it includes anticlericalism, antireligion, and antitheism. When characterized as indifference to religion, it includes apatheism. When characterized as the absence of religious belief, it may also include implicit atheism, agnosticism, ignosticism, nontheism, religious skepticism, and freethought. Irreligion may even include forms of theism, depending on the religious context it is defined against. In 18th-century Europe, the epitome of irreligion was deism. A 2012 survey found that 36% of the world population is not religious and that between 2005 and 2012 world religiosity decreased by 9 percentage points. The Pew global report in 2010 noted that many that are not religious have some religious beliefs and the majority of nonreligious come from Asia and the Pacific.

Definition of irreligious in the English dictionary

The definition of irreligious in the dictionary is lacking in, indifferent to, or opposed to religious faith.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRRELIGIOUS


advantageous
ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs
antireligious
ˌæntɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs
contagious
kənˈteɪdʒəs
courageous
kəˈreɪdʒəs
disadvantageous
dɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs
interreligious
ˌɪntərɪˈlɪdʒəs
litigious
lɪˈtɪdʒəs
multireligious
ˌmʌltɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs
nonreligious
ˌnɒnrɪˈlɪdʒəs
oragious
ɒˈreɪdʒəs
outrageous
aʊtˈreɪdʒəs
prestigious
prɛˈstɪdʒəs
prodigious
prəˈdɪdʒəs
rampageous
ræmˈpeɪdʒəs
religious
rɪˈlɪdʒəs
sacrilegious
ˌsækrɪˈlɪdʒəs
semireligious
ˌsɛmɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs
socioreligious
ˌsəʊsɪəʊrɪˈlɪdʒəs
umbrageous
ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs
unreligious
ˌʌnrɪˈlɪdʒəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRRELIGIOUS

irrelated
irrelation
irrelative
irrelatively
irrelativeness
irrelevance
irrelevancy
irrelevant
irrelevantly
irrelievable
irreligion
irreligionist
irreligiously
irreligiousness
irremeable
irremeably
irremediable
irremediableness
irremediably
irremissibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRRELIGIOUS

ambagious
ambitious
circumambagious
conscious
curious
delicious
egregious
furious
glorious
hilarious
luxurious
mysterious
obvious
precious
previous
serious
spacious
spongious
suspicious
various

Synonyms and antonyms of irreligious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IRRELIGIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «irreligious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of irreligious

Translation of «irreligious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRRELIGIOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

非宗教
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irreligiosa
570 millions of speakers

English

irreligious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधार्मिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملحدون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нерелигиозный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irreligiosa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধার্মিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irréligieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak beragama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unreligiös
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無宗教の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무종교
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irreligious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không tôn giáo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மதசார்பற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dinsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irreligioso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niereligijne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нерелігійна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nereligios
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άθρησκοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongodsdienstig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irreligious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irreligious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irreligious

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRELIGIOUS»

The term «irreligious» is normally little used and occupies the 125.378 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRELIGIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irreligious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irreligious» 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 irreligious

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRRELIGIOUS»

Discover the use of irreligious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irreligious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can ...
And again, of the top 20 nations, most are markedly irreligious. According to Yale University's 2006 Environmental Performance Index, which ranks the world's na- tions in terms of their approaches to protecting the environment, Sweden comes ...
Phil Zuckerman, 2008
2
A letter addressed to ... lord King [accusing him of being ...
Jane Alice Sargant. while, and grant me a patient if not an attentive hearing. That we are living in times of peculiar difficulty and of awful aspect, no one will perhaps deny. Men, false to their country and their God, despisers of all that was once ...
Jane Alice Sargant, 1832
3
Félix Varela
The sight of a temple, which for believers is a source of consolation, excites in the irreligious a mortal hate for those who contribute to it; and since these believers are innumerable, the irreligious becomes the enemy of almost all people, and ...
Félix Varela, Felipe J. Estévez, 1989
4
Poems and Songs: With Lectures on the Genius and Works of ...
merits be true, we think it would be hard to prove that the man who hell suah opinions could be irreligious- 13ut above and beyond all this, we believe that Burns was not an irreligious man, because of the general tenor of his writings. As proof ...
Peter Livingston, 1864
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Poems and songs; with lectures on the genius and works of ...
business now simply is, to prove that Burns was no irreligious man. To that do we now address ourselves. Let us first of all take a broad view of the man. Burns believed in God. He believed in Christ, and loved and admired the beauty of his ...
Peter Livingston, 1856
6
The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His ...
All these evils naturally flow from irreligious families, and not so much from any irreligious individuals. These are to be found at all times and in all places ; but they could do comparatively very little hurt, were it not for irreligious families, who  ...
Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, 1842
7
Essay on the Union of Church and State
... but it becomes more glaringly opposed to the practice of the Old Testament when we consider that it is administered by a State which is irreligious. What part did ungodly kings take, by divine appointment, in the religious affairs of the Jews ?
Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1848
8
English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
South. IRRELIGIOUS, PROFANE, IMPIOUS. As epithets to designate the character of the person, they seem to rise in degree: IRRELIGIOUS is negative; PROFANE and IMPIOUS are positive; the latter being much stronger than the former.
George Crabb, 1846
9
A Dictionary of the Bengala Language: In which the Words are ...
(from srt^jf, irreligion, and ^tfitT, doing), irreligious, wicked, unjust. stt^fstJf, a. 'from stfif, irreligion, and producing), producing a neglect of religion, producing irreligion. «r**rf«ps, a. (from st*tf, irreligion, and *ft3, produced), produced by or arising ...
William Carey, 1825
10
The American Political Landscape
In 1984, the strongest group-based effect on the vote for the religious, those regular church attenders, versus the irreligious, the reliable nonattenders, had been the propensity for the former to vote more at every point on both the economic and ...
Byron E. Shafer, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRRELIGIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irreligious is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stupid Boy! The son of Arthur Lowe on growing up with Capt …
... even made them irreligious - my mother included. She was strongly vocal about her atheism so I don't think the funeral meant anything to her. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Malaysia PM Najib ready to take on raging bull Mahathir | The …
... to neutralise oppositions — mobilising Islamic extremists to denigrate them as irreligious, amplifying the ideological and organisational splits ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
3
Moon landing occurred 46 years ago on July 20 - Sheboygan Press
“I think it's irreligious. We should spend the money on people here.” Decades after the events, unpublished details surfaced that add depth to ... «The Sheboygan Press, Jul 15»
4
Our own daredevil - Daily Times
Modesty when it comes to such occasions is often considered being irreligious. That is where the fault lines lie. A new outfit or footwear does ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
5
Explaining Islamic extremism | The Nation
The phenomenon was interpreted variously as a crusade against Christianity, a jihad against non-believers, or a war against irreligious rulers. «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
6
A Widely Praised Documentary Gets An Even Better Second …
... and people — whether Muslim or Hindu — who were considered irreligious. Among the victims was Ramli, extraordinary not for who he was, ... «WUWM, Jul 15»
7
The many facets to extremism in the Islamic world - The Hindu
The phenomena were interpreted either as a 'crusade against Christianity' or a 'Jihad against the idolaters', or a 'war against irreligious rulers', ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Jewish Education and Jewish Philanthropy
No matter how religious or irreligious they are. Even if they are atheists hopefully they still feel that they are part of a people. That they belong to ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»
9
'Orthodox Society Is Constantly Rewriting The Past': An Interview …
In the original text, he says that you don't mourn for irreligious Jews, and you don't really have anything to do with them. They're wicked people, ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»
10
Chaos always begs for order. - World Politics Journal
Like many right-minded, irreligious, middle class professionals around the world, I was fixated watching the pixelated piles of dead bodies in ... «World Politics Journal, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Irreligious [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/irreligious>. Apr 2024 ».
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