irreligious
pronunciation
How to pronounce irreligious in British English:
UK [ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs]
How to pronounce irreligious in American English:
US [ˌɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs]
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- Adjective:
- hostile or indifferent to religion
Word Origin
- irreligious (adj.)
- c. 1400, from Late Latin irreligiosus "irreligious, impious," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + religiosus (see religious). Related: Irreligiously.
Example
- 1. Secondly , we hate the communists because they are irreligious .
- 2. If you 're a religious woman , give me a irreligious one !
- 3. He called for children to spy upon their parents , prostitutes to be chastised , sodomites burned alive and irreligious frivolities prohibited .
- 4. I may marry an irreligious person .
- 5. All human nature is divided as well into only two general sides , religious and irreligious .