Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who denies the existence of God, or of a supreme intelligent being.
- n. A godless man; one who disregards his duty to God. Synonyms Skeptic, Deist, etc.
See infidel . - Godless; atheistic: as, “the atheist crew,”
Wiktionary
- n. A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).
- n. broadly A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).
- n. loosely A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.
- n. loosely, uncommon A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity.
- adj. Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
- n. obsolete A godless person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who denies the existence of god
- adj. related to or characterized by or given to atheism
Etymologies
- From French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (atheos, "godless, without god"), from ἀ- (a-, "without") + θεός (theos, "god").. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Our hope it to encourage non-religious members of our community to not shy away from the term atheist and for believers to recognize that atheists are not anti-theists.”
“To be clear, the term "atheist" is not synonymous with the terms "non-believer" or "none" a catch-all category used by many researchers.”
The Huffington Post: Joyce S. Dubensky: Who's Still In The Closet? The Future Of Prejudice
“The word atheist is analogous to the denigrating word "colored" to describe African Americans, which was meant to say they are colored relative to the pure "standard" of white.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Schweitzer: The Faux Rage About a False War on Christmas
“Just as we thankfully no longer use the world colored, we should abandon the term atheist.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Schweitzer: The Faux Rage About a False War on Christmas
“The solution is to abandon completely the use of the term atheist, just as polite society no longer uses the "N" word to describe African-Americans, "Rag Heads" for Arabs or "Wet Backs" for those south of the border.”
“I'm not comfortable with the term atheist either, but would put myself into the agnostic category.”
Believe in me, help me believe in anything (What if No One's Watching?)
“I don't even use the term atheist or agnostic anymore.”
“I don't like the term atheist because, to me, that is as rigid as religion is,”
“Some people agree with you about the term atheist though, suggesting other words such as “bright” or “freethinker,” etc.”
“I refuse to accept the term atheist for two reasons, the first is I don't believe anyone truly believes in a higher power”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘atheist’.
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Feel free to add words (as soon as I complete my transcription).abif, accepted, accord, active member, adjournment, admonish, adoration, adversity, affiliate, affirmation, lawful age, aid of deity and 143 more...
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Hodges English 10 Vocab
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Tweets
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renumeratedfrog A person who laughs at people for being stupid dogmatists, but gets terribly upset when someone points out his own stupid dogmatism. Nov 8, 2012