Atheist
['eɪθɪɪst] or ['eθɪɪst]
Definition
(noun.) someone who denies the existence of god.
(adj.) related to or characterized by or given to atheism; 'atheist leanings' .
Editor: Margaret--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) A godless person.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unbeliever (in the existence of God), INFIDEL, sceptic, free-thinker.
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Examples
- If I had ever before been an Atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Are you--ha--an Atheist? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The age might be compared to those years of a boy's life when he becomes an atheist and quarrels with his family. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But against this Robespierre set his face; he was no atheist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am an atheist. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- An infidel to _your_ religion, an atheist to _your_ god. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is a godless woman of the world, would Mr. Crawley say; she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All thinking men are atheists, the major said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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