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| We've all sat down to write a blog article or school assignment, right? What is one thing that you reach for - a dictionary or thesaurus. |
| And using an online reference source is quick, easy, and painless - unless you happen to be Pagan or Wiccan, that is! What you're |
| looking at right now are all the definitions and synonyms for "Pagan" on DICTIONARY.COM and THESAURUS.COM. Pretty offensive references! |
| THESAURUS.COM ENTRIES FOR THE WORDS "PAGAN" AND "CHRISTIAN": |
| PAGAN: adj irreligious |
| noun person who does not believe in an orthodox religion |
| Synonyms for pagan |
| adj irreligious |
| agnostic, heathen, infidel, atheistic, idolatrous, impious, polytheistic, profane |
| Antonyms for pagan |
| believing, religious |
| More words related to pagan |
| ATHEIST: noun. nonbeliever |
| agnostic, free thinker, heathen, infidel, irreligionist, pagan, skeptic |
| HEATHEN: adj. not believing in christian god |
| agnostic, atheistic, barbarian, godless, idolatrous, infidel, irreligious, nonbeliever, pagan, profane, skeptic |
| INFIDEL: noun. nonbeliever |
| agnostic, atheist, gentile, heathen, heretic, non worshiper, pagan, unbeliever |
| IRRELIGIOUS: adj. ungodly |
| agnostic, atheistic, blasphemous, faithless, free-thinking, godless, heathen, iconoclastic, impious, irreverent, pagan, sacrilegious |
| sinful, unbelieving, undevout, unholy |
| PROFANE: adj. immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
| abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, |
| irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, |
| transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly |
| SACRILEGIOUS: adj. profane |
| atheistic, blasphemous, desecrating, dirty, filthy, foul, godless, heathen, impious, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, obscene |
| pagan, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, violating |
| SKEPTIC: noun. person who is leery, unbelieving |
| agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, |
| misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever |
| NONBELIEVER: noun. unbeliever |
| agnostic, atheist, doubter, heathen, infidel, pagan, skeptic |
| HERETIC: noun. schismatic |
| apostate, cynic, pagan, sectarian, skeptic |
| IDOLATROUS: adj. fetishistic |
| heathen, idol worshipping, pagan |
| UNBELIEVER: noun. skeptic |
| agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen,heretic, infidel, materialist, |
| misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, nonbeliever, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer |
| CHRISTIAN: as in ethical and evangelical |
| Synonyms for Christian |
| adj moral, righteous |
| honest, honorable, humane, principled, proper, virtuous, clean, conscientious, correct, decent |
| elevated, equitable, fair, fitting, good, high-principled, just, kosher, moralistic, noble, |
| respectable, right, right-minded, square, straight, true blue, upright, upstanding |
| Antonyms for christian |
| corrupt, dishonest, immoral, improper, unethical, unjust, unrighteous |
| More words related to christian |
| ETHICAL: adj. moral, righteous |
| Christian, clean, conscientious, correct, decent, elevated, equitable, fair, fitting, good |
| high-principled , honest, honorable, humane, just, kosher, moralistic, noble, principled, proper |
| respectable, right, right-minded, square, straight, true blue, upright, upstanding, virtuous |
| evangelical |
| adj. fundamentalist |
| Christian, apostolic, divine, evangelic, orthodox, pious, religious, scriptural |
| Citation from Dictionary.com / Thesaurus.com |
| Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group. |
