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Antonyms for freethinking
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : free-thing-ker |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfriˈθɪŋ kər |
Definition of freethinking
- As in irreligious : adj ungodly
- As in radical : adj deviating by extremes
- As in skeptical : adj disbelieving, leery
- As in unbelieving : adj skeptical
- As in broad-minded : adj liberal
- As in libertine : adj debauched
- As in godless : adj without a god or divine faith
- As in heretical : adj unorthodox
- As in atheism : noun belief that no god exists
- Compare Bentley on Freethinking, from which much of this is derived.
- Extract from : « The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire » by Edward Gibbon
- The only tutor I valued—you, Koll—had been dismissed; they considered you to be too freethinking.
- Extract from : « Three Dramas » by Bjrnstjerne M. Bjrnson
- To these Protestants he would doubtless have joined the freethinking Bolingbroke.
- Extract from : « Alexander Pope » by Leslie Stephen
- There is positively a child-cultus in the great French cities, and especially in Freethinking Paris.
- Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
- But our Sham Rao had a slight tendency to freethinking, as we knew, and besides, he was too much of an admirer of Haeckel.
- Extract from : « From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan » by Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
- Other philosophical works are few, and chiefly express the doubt and the freethinking which were characteristic of the time.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 » by Various
- We have seen how he besought all of his freethinking followers to beware of seeming to presume on the vote in his favour.
- Extract from : « Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume II (of 2) » by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner and J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
- And there were yet further matters to be dealt with, as the position of freethinking jurors.
- Extract from : « Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume II (of 2) » by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner and J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
- How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment?
- Extract from : « Excursions and Poems » by Henry David Thoreau
- We do not believe in the story of his freethinking, though Walpole strongly repeats it, and gives his authority.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. » by Various
Synonyms for freethinking
- adiamorphic
- advanced
- agnostic
- anarchistic
- aporetic
- apostate
- atheistic
- blasphemous
- catholic
- complete
- cosmopolitan
- cynical
- differing
- disagreeing
- disbelief
- disbelieving
- dispassionate
- dissenting
- dissentive
- dissident
- dissolute
- distrustful
- doubt
- doubtful
- doubting
- dubious
- entire
- excessive
- extremist
- faithless
- fanatical
- far-out
- flexible
- free-thinking
- freethinking
- godless
- godlessness
- heathen
- heresy
- hesitating
- heterodox
- iconoclasm
- iconoclastic
- idolatrous
- immoderate
- immoral
- impiety
- impious
- incredulous
- indulgent
- infidel
- infidelity
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- intransigent
- irreligion
- irreligious
- irreverence
- irreverent
- lascivious
- lawless
- lecherous
- leery
- leftist
- lewd
- liberal
- libidinous
- licentious
- lustful
- militant
- misbelieving
- miscreant
- mistrustful
- mutinous
- nihilism
- nihilistic
- nonbelief
- nonbelieving
- nonconformist
- not born yesterday
- open
- open-minded
- pagan
- paganism
- permissive
- profligate
- progressive
- questioning
- quizzical
- rabid
- radical
- rakish
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- receptive
- recusant
- refractory
- responsive
- restive
- revisionist
- revolutionary
- riotous
- sacrilegious
- schismatic
- scoffing
- sectarian
- seditious
- sensual
- severe
- show-me
- sinful
- skeptical
- skepticism
- suspicious
- sweeping
- thorough
- tolerant
- ultra
- ultraist
- unbelief
- unbelieving
- unbiased
- unbigoted
- uncompromising
- unconvinced
- undevout
- undogmatic
- unholy
- unprejudiced
- violent
- way out
- wide
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