antireligion

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adjective

Opposed to or acting against religion

Similar
antireligiousantitheist
OriginEnglish religion ← Middle English religioun ← Old French religion →
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Meanings

adjectiveantireligion (comparative more antireligion, superlative most antireligion)

comparative more antireligion · superlative most antireligion

  1. Opposed to or acting against religion

    Lloyd's Prayer includes several ingeniously loopy spiels from Lloyd in his carnival huckster-televangelist modes, but Kling insists he's not antireligion.

    1988 September 23, Hugh Boulware, “On Stage: all things crass and kitschy”, in Chicago Reader

    Synonyms: antireligious, antitheist

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOpposed to or acting against religion

Similar
antireligiousantitheist
Also see
antireligiousirreligious

Origin

  1. Englishanti-
  2. Latinreligiō
  3. Old Frenchreligion
  4. Middle Englishreligioun
  5. Englishreligion
  6. Englishantireligion

From anti- + religion.

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APA

antireligion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireligion

MLA

“antireligion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireligion. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antireligion,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireligion.

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