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antinomian

an·ti·no·mi·an/æntiˈnoʊmi.ən/noun, adjective

antinomian is a noun meaning “One who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-N-O-M-I-A-N and has 5 syllables (an·ti·no·mi·an), and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antinomian is antinomians.

What does antinomian mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to antinomianism.

  2. 2

    Rejecting higher moral or legal authority.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce antinomian?

  • UK /æntiˈnoʊmi.ən/
  • US /æntiˈnoʊmi.ən/
  • US /æntaɪˈnoʊmi.ən/

Antinomian has 5 syllables, split an·ti·no·mi·an in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-antinomian.ogg, En-us-antinomian.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of antinomian

  • antinomians plural
  • more antinomian comparative
  • most antinomian superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antinomian?

Antinomian appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Antinomian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAntinomist (one who embraces, encourages, or practices…), antinomistisch (of or pertaining to antinomianism)
Portugueseantinomiano, antinomista (one who embraces, encourages, or practices…)
Spanishantinomiano, antinomiana, antinomista, antinomianista (one who embraces, encourages, or practices…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does antinomian come from?

From Medieval Latin Antinomi, from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”) + νόμος (nómos, “custom, law”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).