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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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