ATHEIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does atheist mean? 

• ATHEIST (noun)
  The noun ATHEIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who does not believe in the existence of a god

  Familiarity information: ATHEIST used as a noun is very rare.

• ATHEIST (adjective)
  The adjective ATHEIST has 1 sense:

1. related to or characterized by or given to atheism

  Familiarity information: ATHEIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATHEIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who does not believe in the existence of a god

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("atheist" is a kind of...):

nonbeliever (someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity))

Derivation:

atheism (a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods)

atheist (related to or characterized by or given to atheism)

atheistic (rejecting any belief in gods)

atheistic (related to or characterized by or given to atheism)

atheistical (rejecting any belief in gods)

atheistical (related to or characterized by or given to atheism)

• ATHEIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Related to or characterized by or given to atheism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

atheist; atheistic; atheistical

Context example:

atheist leanings

Derivation:

atheist (someone who does not believe in the existence of a god)

 Context examples 

For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)