antireligious
adjective
antireligious is an adjective meaning “Opposed to religion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-R-E-L-I-G-I-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antireligious mean?
adjective
- 1
Opposed to religion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antireligious
- more antireligious comparative
- most antireligious superlative
- anti-religious
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antireligious?
Antireligious appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Antireligious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense opposed to religion:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antireligieux |
| German | antireligiös, religionsfeindlich |
| Portuguese | antirreligioso, antirreligião |
| Spanish | antirreligioso |
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 antireligious come from?
From anti- + religious.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).