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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRRELIG'IOUS, a. Destitute of religious principles; condemning religion; impious; ungodly.
Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious.
1. Contrary to religion; profane; impious; wicked; as an irreligious speech; irreligious conduct.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: hostile or indifferent to religion [ant: religious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. neglectful of religion ; lacking religious emotions, doctrines, or practices <so irreligious that they exploit popular religion for professional purposes — G. B. Shaw> 2. indicating lack of religion • irreligiously adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 indifferent or hostile to religion. 2 lacking a religion. Derivatives: irreligiously adv. irreligiousness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Irreligious Ir`re*li"gious, a. [L. irreligiosus: cf. F. irr['e]ligieux.] 1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. --South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An irreligious person does not accept the beliefs of any religion or opposes all religions. = atheistic ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Ungodly, undevout. 2. Profane, impious, wicked.

Moby Thesaurus

amoral, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, creedless, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, godless, heretical, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, nonbelieving, nonreligious, nullifidian, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, repudiative, sacrilegious, sinful, un-Christly, unangelic, unbelieving, unchristian, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, undevout, undutiful, ungodly, unholy, unmoral, unreligious, unrighteous, unsaintly, wicked, without faith