Antonyms for religious
rɪˈlɪdʒ əsre·li·gious

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1. religious

   Antonyms:
   impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane

   Synonyms:
   pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred

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1. religiousadjective

   a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

   Antonyms:
   unbelieving, nonchurchgoing, heathen, lapsed, nonobservant, atheistic, profane, ethnic, heathenish, atheistical, secular, pagan, irreligious, unscrupulous

2. religious, spiritualadjective

   concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

   "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"

   Antonyms:
   irreligious, secular, nonobservant, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, heathenish, atheistic, pagan, ethnic, atheistical, profane, heathen, lapsed, unscrupulous

   Synonyms:
   ghostly, spiritual, spectral, apparitional, unearthly, phantasmal, ghostlike

3. religiousadjective

   having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity

   "a religious man"; "religious attitude"

   Antonyms:
   secular, atheistic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, nonobservant, pagan, irreligious, profane, heathenish, ethnic, atheistical, heathen, lapsed

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

4. religiousadjective

   of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows

   "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"

   Antonyms:
   secular, nonobservant, heathen, lapsed, atheistical, heathenish, unbelieving, atheistic, pagan, profane, ethnic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, irreligious

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

5. religiousadjective

   extremely scrupulous and conscientious

   "religious in observing the rules of health"

   Antonyms:
   atheistical, unscrupulous, secular, unbelieving, pagan, heathen, profane, ethnic, atheistic, lapsed, nonobservant, heathenish, irreligious, nonchurchgoing

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

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1. religiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional, strict, exact, scrupulous, conscientious

How to use religious in a sentence?

1. Neil Datta:

   Veteran WCF critics frame World Congress of Families as being in favor of family and life and religious freedom, but really what Veteran WCF critics mean is simply different ways of restricting peoples human rights, instead of talking about religious values, Veteran WCF critics've taken the same idea but have put it through a secularizing washing machine so it comes out sounding like modern human rights language.

2. Rohan Gunaratna:

   Within the Christian community there has to be moderation because by its nature it consists of two different ethnic communities. Theres a natural instinct for them to look at such religious and ethnic issues with deep compassion.

3. Eric Rassbach:

   For most religious Americans, faith is not some secretive activity conducted behind closed doors, faith for them means being out in the community serving with and for others, particularly the least among us.

4. Richard Pryor:

   Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

5. Med Jones:

   In the age of knowledge and global socioeconomic exchange, goodwill and trade relations are far important to national prosperity and stability than land or military power. Socioeconomic systems that are built on exclusive ideologies, religious or ethnic purities are breeding grounds for extremism and will eventually lead to civil and international conflicts. Those countries must change or fail.

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