antireligious

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

anti- +‎ religious

Adjective

antireligious (comparative more antireligious, superlative most antireligious)

  1. Opposed to religion.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:antireligious
    • 2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in New York Times‎:
      The many nonbelievers he interviewed […] were anything but antireligious, for example.

Usage notes
  • anti-religious is slightly more common overall than antireligious; it is at least two times as common in the British corpus.[1] Merriam-Webster,[2] OED and Cambridge[3] have anti-religious. Collins[4] and Cambridge[3] have antireligious.

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References
  1. anti-religious, antireligious at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. “anti-religious”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  3. “anti-religious”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
  4. “antireligious”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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