Antonyms for non-religious

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-lij-uhs

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈlɪdʒ əs

Definition of non-religious

Origin : c.1200, "devout, pious, imbued with or expressive of religious devotion," from Anglo-French religius, Old French religious (12c., Modern French religieux) and directly from Latin religiosus, from religio (see religion). Meaning "pertaining to religion" is from 1530s. Transferred sense of "scrupulous, exact" is recorded from 1590s. Related: Religiousness.

As in secular : adj not spiritual or religious
As in atheistic : adj unreligious
As in nonreligious : adj not religious

Example sentences :

Not in the least; to be non-religious or a-religious is not to be anti-religious.
Extract from : « The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study » by Jean-Marie Guyau

There can be no hope of assigning it non-religious ideas as its cause.
Extract from : « The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life » by Emile Durkheim

Here if an institution is non-religious it is probably not hostile to religion.
Extract from : « Changing China » by William Gascoyne-Cecil

He does not realize the impossibility of civilizing a non-religious world.
Extract from : « What and Where is God? » by Richard La Rue Swain

He would permit the whole race to be non-religious like himself.
Extract from : « What and Where is God? » by Richard La Rue Swain

Again, are they competent judges who say the Japanese are non-religious?
Extract from : « Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic » by Sidney L. Gulick

The non-religious displayed as great superstition in this matter as did the religious.
Extract from : « Folk Lore » by James Napier

From boyhood he had lived a roving and non-religious life, although possessing no little tenderness of conscience.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 » by Various

But oddly enough, she had no rooted objection to reading aloud to her grandmother any non-religious book, however serious.
Extract from : « The Open Question » by Elizabeth Robins

And meanwhile the “non-religious world” pronounces the opposite extreme.
Extract from : « An Outline of Sexual Morality » by Kenneth Ingram

Synonyms for non-religious

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