atheist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Inflected forms:
form: atheists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more atheist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most atheist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
pos: noun
examples: Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist, is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. […] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief."
gloss: A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
pos: noun
examples: Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […]
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not.
gloss: A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Minister—Are you really an Atheist?
Atheist—Yes.
M.—Do you deny that there is a god?
A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely.
Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’
gloss: A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
pos: noun
examples: All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
gloss: A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Throughout history, atheists were simply people who did not believe the prevalent God of the day. For the sun-worshippers, Christians were atheists. For Jewish people, Christians were atheists. Whoever does not believe in your God is by definition, an atheist. […] With all the countless Gods concocted by man, I claim that my Christian friends and I have something in common. We are all atheists, I just believe in one less God than they.
gloss: A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: This is one of the strongest Grounds of Suspicion to me, and assures me that he has very little Regard to Religion in general; that he can pretend to marry you, and know nothing whether you are a Heathen or Christian; an Atheist or religious Person, a Papist or a Protestant; the Man can have no great Value for Religion, that is so little concerned whether his Wife has any, or no; for I take the Thing to weigh as much on one Side as on the other, where there is any serious Confideration at Bottom.
For instance, in Morocco, while a Muslim man is free to marry a non-Muslim woman, provided she is Christian or Jewish, but not Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist, a Muslim woman is only supposed to marry a Muslim man.
Since radio and TV started playing Atheists Like Me, the lead song in the album, Huang's record company has received more than 100 phone calls protesting the content of the new song, the local China Times newspaper reported.[…]
It's not clear who has been offended by the tune, but most Taiwanese are Buddhists or Daoists. A small number are Christians, Muslims and atheists.
In her chapter, “Freedom of and Freedom from Religion: Atheist Involvement in Legal Cases,” Lori G. Beaman presents her reflections on the various claims made by atheists in the legal arena, such as the objection to prayers in municipal[…]
20 “We just need to get rid of religion,” atheist author and entertainer Penn Jillette has said. Many atheists agree, as you can tell from the popularity of antireligion books such as Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great.
The legal image of the atheist constructed by these cases implies that the atheist or religious none is unworthy of voice and indeed of citizenship, that they are not part of the history of the nation, and that they are therefore unable to contribute to the public discussion about religion or its place in the public sphere.
Moreover, we also know that an atheist or agnostic is statistically more likely to be autistic than neurotypical and a religious believer is statistically more likely to be neurotypical than autistic.
gloss: Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
pos: adj
examples: He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!
Synonyms: nontheist
atheitard
gaytheist
Antonyms: theist
Related words: aatheist
atheism
atheistic
atheistical
atheophobia
monotheist
pantheist
polytheist
theist
agnostic
deist
pandeist
ignostic
apatheist
God hypothesis
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ateïs
lang: Albanian
word: ateist
lang: Albanian
word: pafe
lang: Arabic
word: مُلْحِد
roman: mulḥid
lang: Arabic
word: مُلْحِدَة
roman: mulḥida
lang: Arabic
word: دَهْرِيّ
roman: dahriyy
lang: Arabic
word: دَهْرِيَّة
roman: dahriyya
lang: Arabic
word: ملحد
roman: mulḥid
lang: Armenian
word: աթեիստ
roman: atʻeist
lang: Belarusian
word: атэі́ст
roman: ateíst
lang: Belarusian
word: атэі́стка
roman: ateístka
lang: Bengali
word: নাস্তিক
roman: nastik
lang: Bulgarian
word: атеи́ст
roman: ateíst
lang: Bulgarian
word: атеи́стка
roman: ateístka
lang: Catalan
word: ateu
lang: Catalan
word: atea
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無神論者 /无神论者
roman: wúshénlùnzhě
lang: Czech
word: ateista
lang: Czech
word: ateistka
lang: Danish
word: ateist
lang: Dutch
word: atheïst
lang: Dutch
word: atheïste
lang: Dutch
word: godloochenaar
lang: Dutch
word: goddeloze
lang: Esperanto
word: ateisto
lang: Esperanto
word: ateistino
lang: Esperanto
word: sendiismano
lang: Estonian
word: ateist
lang: Finnish
word: ateisti
lang: French
word: athée
lang: Georgian
word: ათეისტი
roman: ateisṭi
lang: Georgian
word: ურწმუნო
roman: urc̣muno
lang: German
word: Atheist
lang: German
word: Atheistin
lang: German
word: Gottesleugner
lang: German
word: Gottesleugnerin
lang: German
word: Gottloser
lang: German
word: Gottlose
lang: Greek
word: αθεϊστής
roman: atheïstís
lang: Greek
word: αθεΐστρια
roman: atheḯstria
lang: Greek
word: άθεος
roman: átheos
lang: Greek
word: άθεη
roman: átheï
lang: Hebrew
word: אָתֵאִיסְט
roman: ateíst
lang: Hindi
word: नास्तिक
roman: nāstik
lang: Hungarian
word: ateista
lang: Icelandic
word: trúleysingi
lang: Icelandic
word: guðleysingi
lang: Icelandic
word: heiðingi
lang: Indonesian
word: ateis
lang: Indonesian
word: mulhid
lang: Irish
word: aindiachaí
lang: Italian
word: ateo
lang: Italian
word: atea
lang: Japanese
word: 無神論者
roman: mushinronsha
lang: Kazakh
word: пәнші
roman: pänşı
lang: Kazakh
word: құдайсыз
roman: qūdaisyz
lang: Korean
word: 무신론자
roman: musillonja
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xwedênenas
lang: Kyrgyz
word: атеист
roman: ateist
lang: Kyrgyz
word: динсиз
roman: dinsiz
lang: Latin
word: atheus
lang: Latin
word: atheos
lang: Latvian
word: ateists
lang: Lithuanian
word: ateistas
lang: Macedonian
word: атеи́ст
roman: ateíst
lang: Macedonian
word: атеи́стка
roman: ateístka
lang: Malay
word: ateis
lang: Malayalam
word: നിരീശ്വരവാദി
roman: nirīśvaravādi
lang: Marathi
word: नास्तिक
roman: nāstik
lang: Norman
word: athée
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ateist
lang: Pashto
word: ملحد
roman: molhéd
lang: Pashto
word: دهري
roman: dahrí
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آتِئیسْت
roman: âte'ist
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُلْحِد
roman: molhed
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کافِر
roman: kâfer
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Gottesläajna
lang: Polish
word: ateista
lang: Polish
word: ateistka
lang: Polish
word: ateusz
lang: Polish
word: ateuszka
lang: Portuguese
word: ateu
lang: Portuguese
word: ateia
lang: Portuguese
word: ateísta
lang: Romanian
word: ateist
lang: Romanian
word: ateistă
lang: Romanian
word: ateu
lang: Russian
word: атеи́ст
roman: atɛíst
lang: Russian
word: атеи́стка
roman: atɛístka
lang: Sanskrit
word: धन्य
roman: dhanya
lang: Sanskrit
word: पाषण्ड
roman: pāṣaṇḍa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: атѐист
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: атѐиста
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: атѐисткиња
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: atèist
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: atèista
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: atèistkinja
lang: Slovak
word: ateista
lang: Slovak
word: ateistka
lang: Slovene
word: ateist
lang: Slovene
word: ateistka
lang: Spanish
word: ateo
lang: Spanish
word: atea
lang: Spanish
word: ateísta
lang: Swahili
word: mkanamungu
lang: Swahili
word: mkana-mungu
lang: Swahili
word: mkana mungu
lang: Swedish
word: ateist
lang: Thai
word: ผู้ที่เชื่อว่าไม่มีพระเจ้า
roman: pûu-tîi-chʉ̂ʉa-wâa-mâi-mii-prá-jâao
lang: Thai
word: ผู้ถืออเทวนิยม
roman: pûu-tʉ̌ʉ-à-tee-wá-ní-yom
lang: Turkish
word: ateist
lang: Turkish
word: tanrıtanımaz
lang: Turkish
word: mülhid
lang: Turkish
word: ate
lang: Ukrainian
word: атеї́ст
roman: atejíst
lang: Ukrainian
word: атеї́стка
roman: atejístka
lang: Walloon
word: atêye
lang: Walloon
word: ateyisse
lang: Yiddish
word: אַטעיִסט
roman: ateist