nonbeliever

Noun

Meaning

someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

gentile godless infidel iconoclast cynic kafir freethinker ethnic pagan agnostic atheist heretic heathen skeptic atheistic
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Antonyms

parson convert pedant believer adherent conformist
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Hypernyms

nonreligious person

Hyponyms

atheist irreligionist materialist

Related terms

unbeliever

Examples

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Albert Einstein

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. Albert Einstein

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. Primo Levi

The contact of a believer with a nonbeliever must take the form of a dialogue. The all-powerful action of pure sanctity alone is dispensed from it, since it is not bound by any law. But the dialogue will never get underway if it is not first a dialogue with myself. Henri de Lubac

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else. William Peter Blatty

"She was stronger than the gods who created her?” "Guys, I didn't make this stuff up. Don't ask me to rationalize it. Goblin, you've been everywhere. You ever seen a religion that can't be picked to shreds by any nonbeliever with brains enough to tie his own bootlaces? Glen Cook

Close letter words and terms

nonbehavioural nonbeing nonbelief nonbelieving nonbellicose nonbelligerency