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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
irreligious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was, in fact, not irreligious.
▪ It comes with equal challenge to the religious as to the irreligious.
▪ The weak are bullied by the strong, the little by the big, the pious by the irreligious.
▪ This is not to say that Richard was irreligious.
▪ To be a layman, even to be anticlerical, is not necessarily to be irreligious.
▪ To do nothing on behalf of the socially deprived is to him basically irreligious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irreligious

Irreligious \Ir`re*li"gious\, a. [L. irreligiosus: cf. F. irr['e]ligieux.]

  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.

    Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious.
    --South.

  2. Indicating a lack of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irreligious

c.1400, from Late Latin irreligiosus "irreligious, impious," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + religiosus (see religious). Related: Irreligiously.

Wiktionary
irreligious

a. 1 Contrary to religious beliefs and practices. 2 Describing a conscious rejection of religion. 3 Having no relation to religion; nonreligious.

WordNet
irreligious

adj. hostile or indifferent to religion [ant: religious]

Wikipedia
Irreligious (album)

Irreligious is the second studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band, Moonspell, released 1996. It features some of the best-known songs of the band, such as " Opium", "Ruin & Misery", "Awake" and "Full Moon Madness". The latter is usually the closing song during almost every Moonspell concert, which over time has become a characteristic of their concerts. Before the song begins, Fernando Ribeiro often makes the sign of the circle (symbolizing Moon) over the crowd. The 3rd track Awake features a recording of Aleister Crowley reading his poem 'the poet'.

Usage examples of "irreligious".

I was nothing if not irreligious, and Venice did not contain a greater libertine.

Our whole younger generation is irreligious in the extreme, and self-assured, individualistic beyond bearance.

Every time one of these irreligious vampires opens their mouths to attack the Ten Commandments, I've got to roll down a window.

Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?

Did it burst upon us before the Voice sent from heaven announcing the approach of the Gauls was treated with contempt, before the law of nations had been outraged by our ambassadors, before we had, in the same irreligious spirit, condoned that outrage when we ought to have punished it?

It would look a little Irreligious, since all things are ready, to defer the Dedication of it any longer: I shall therefore be there on the Dedication Day, which I have resolv'd to celebrate with a Festival Supper: As far as I know, we may stay a Day or two, but we will make the more haste in our Journey.

Irreligious and superstitious, like every soldier who is nothing but a soldier, when he called to mind all the circumstances of this adventure he could not tell what to make of the goat, of the odd way in which he had first met with La Esmeralda, of the not less strange manner in which she had betrayed her love, of her being an Egyptian, and, lastly, of the goblin-monk.