antireligious

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ religious.

Adjective

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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[1]:
      The many nonbelievers he interviewed [] were anything but antireligious, for example.

Usage notes

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  • 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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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ anti-religious, antireligious at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ anti-religious”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  3. 3.0 3.1 anti-religious”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
  4. ^ antireligious”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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