Meaning of ATHEISTIC
| Pronunciation: | | `eythee'istik
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- [adj] rejecting any belief in gods
- [adj] related to or characterized by or given to atheism; "atheist leanings"
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| | Synonyms: | | atheist, atheistical, atheistical, irreligious, unbelieving |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A`the*is"tic\, Atheistical \A`the*is"tic*al\, a.
1. Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; --
applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or
books.
Atheistical explications of natural effects.
--Barrow.
2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; --
applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. --
{A`the*is"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {A`the*is"tic*al*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | apostate, atheist, backsliding, blasphemous, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, gentile, goyish, heathen, impious, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, misbelieving, non-Christian, non-Jewish, non-Mohammedan, non-Mormon, non-Moslem, non-Muhammadan, non-Muslim, nullifidian, pagan, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, sacrilegious, unbelieving, unchristian, uncircumcised, undutiful |
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