He avowed himself an atheist.
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Atheist
/ˈeɪθiɪst/
Synonyms for "atheist" (39 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (12)
Noun(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (19)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: apostate, atheistic, atheistic, atheistical, atheitard.
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When not to replace "atheist"
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Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
7 entriesMore specific
6 entriesacademic atheisthardline atheistmilitant atheistnew atheistphilosophical atheistquiet atheist
Collocations
12 entriesacademic atheistatheist activismatheist argumentatheist beliefsatheist ethicsatheist movementatheist positionatheist rhetoricatheist worldviewmilitant atheistsecular atheiststaunch atheist
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
118 translations across 59 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- ateïs noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Albanian
2 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- pafe noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Arabic
4 entries- دَهْرِيَّة noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- دَهْرِيّ noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ملحد noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- مُلْحِد noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Armenian
1 entries- աթեիստ noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Belarusian
2 entries- атэі́ст noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атэі́стка noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Bengali
1 entries- নাস্তিক noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Bulgarian
2 entries- атеи́ст noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атеи́стка noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Catalan
2 entries- atea noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 無神論者 /无神论者 noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Czech
2 entries- ateista noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateistka noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Danish
1 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Dutch
4 entries- atheïst noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- atheïste noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- goddeloze noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- godloochenaar noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Esperanto
3 entries- ateistino noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateisto noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- sendiismano noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Estonian
1 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Finnish
1 entries- ateisti noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
French
1 entries- athée noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Georgian
2 entries- ათეისტი noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ურწმუნო noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
German
4 entries- Atheist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- Atheistin noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- Gottesleugner noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- Gottesleugnerin noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Greek
4 entries- άθεη noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- άθεος noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- αθεΐστρια noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- αθεϊστής noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Hebrew
1 entries- אָתֵאִיסְט noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Hindi
1 entries- नास्तिक noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Hungarian
1 entries- ateista noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Icelandic
3 entries- guðleysingi noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- heiðingi noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- trúleysingi noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Indonesian
2 entries- ateis noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- mulhid noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- آتِئیسْت noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- مُلْحِد noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- کافِر noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Irish
1 entries- aindiachaí noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Italian
2 entries- atea noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateo noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Japanese
1 entries- 無神論者 noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Kazakh
2 entries- пәнші noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- құдайсыз noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Korean
1 entries- 무신론자 noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- атеист noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- динсиз noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Latin
2 entries- atheos noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- atheus noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Latvian
1 entries- ateists noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ateistas noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Macedonian
2 entries- атеи́ст noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атеи́стка noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Malay
1 entries- ateis noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Malayalam
1 entries- നിരീശ്വരവാദി noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Marathi
1 entries- नास्तिक noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Norman
1 entries- athée noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xwedênenas noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Pashto
2 entries- دهري noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ملحد noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Gottesläajna noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Polish
4 entries- ateista noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateistka noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateusz noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateuszka noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Portuguese
3 entries- ateia noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateísta noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Romanian
3 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateistă noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Russian
2 entries- атеи́ст noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атеи́стка noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Sanskrit
2 entries- धन्य noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- पाषण्ड noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- atèist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- atèista noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- atèistkinja noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атѐист noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Slovak
2 entries- ateista noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateistka noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Slovene
2 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateistka noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Spanish
2 entries- atea noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateo noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Swahili
3 entries- mkana mungu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- mkana-mungu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- mkanamungu noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Swedish
1 entries- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Thai
2 entries- ผู้ถืออเทวนิยม noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ผู้ที่เชื่อว่าไม่มีพระเจ้า noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Turkish
4 entries- ate noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- ateist noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- mülhid noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- tanrıtanımaz noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Ukrainian
2 entries- атеї́ст noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- атеї́стка noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Walloon
2 entries- ateyisse noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
- atêye noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַטעיִסט noun (a person who believes with certainty that no deities exist)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
I'm an atheist.
Source: tatoeba (379739)
Mark Zuckerberg is atheist, not theist.
Source: tatoeba (515357)
No atheist worth his salt will try to prove that God does not exist.
Source: tatoeba (603694)
Showing 4 of 29 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "atheist"?
Closest matches include apostate, atheistic, atheistic, atheistical, atheitard.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "atheist"?
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