What is another word for infidel?

Pronunciation: [ˈɪnfɪdə͡l] (IPA)

Infidel is a derogatory term often used to describe someone who does not believe in a particular religion or is seen as rejecting one's values or beliefs. There are several synonyms that can be used instead of infidel, such as unbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, heretic, and blasphemer. The term unbeliever simply refers to someone who does not believe in a specific religion or deity, while nonbeliever is a more broad term used to describe individuals who do not hold religious beliefs. Atheist refers specifically to those who do not believe in the existence of any deity, and agnostic refers to someone who is unsure of the existence of a higher power. Heretic and blasphemer are terms used to describe those who perform actions or hold beliefs that go against traditional religious teachings.

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Infidel, the term which means "a person who does not believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own." There are various antonyms for the word "infidel," which depict the believers of various religions. Some of the antonyms are faithful, believer, devout, pious, religious, saintly, reverent, godly, devoted, and spiritual. These antonyms represent the believers of different religions and show that there are different ways to believe in God or a higher power. In conclusion, the term infidel, which has a negative connotation, has many antonyms, which represent the positive side of religion and faith.

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Usage examples for Infidel

No infidel could have served his cause by quoting the words of Hosea.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Not if it should happen to have been a tame bull, you little infidel?
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Another common error is revealed by Mrs. Pipchin, when she called Paul "a little infidel," because he did not accept her statement about the mad bull, although she knew it to be false herself.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Infidel

  • Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
    Ethan A. Hitchcock
  • Write on my gravestone: infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
    Wendell Phillips
  • Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. 'The simple,' says Solomon, 'believeth every word.'
    Tryon Edwards
  • 'Next morning the sun revealed a horrid spectacle on the vast plain south of PAnipat. On the actual field of the combat thirty-one distinct heaps of the slain were counted, the number of bodies in each ranging from 500 upwards to 1000 and in four up to 1500 a rough total of 28,000. In addition to these, the ditch round the Maratha camp was full of dead bodies, partly the victims of disease and famine during the long siege and partly wounded men who had crawled out of the fighting to die there. West and south of PAnipat city, the jungle and the road in the line of MarAtha retreat were littered with the remains of those who had fallen unresisting in the relentless DurrAni pursuit or from hunger and exhaustion. Their number - probably three-fourths non-combatants and one-fourth soldiers - could not have been far short of the vast total of those slain in the battlefield. 'The hundreds who lay down wounded, perished from the severity of the cold.'.... 'After the havoc of combat followed massacre in cold blood. Several hundreds of MarAthas had hidden themselves in the hostile city of PAnipat through folly or helplessness; and these were hunted out next day and put to the sword. According to one plausible account, the sons of Abdus Samad Khan and Mian Qutb received the DurrAni king's permission to avenge their father's death by an indiscriminate massacre of the MarAthas for one day, and in this way nearly nine thousand men perished [Bhau Bakhar, 123.]; these were evidently non-combatants. The eyewitness Kashiraj Pandit thus describes the scene: 'Every DurrAni soldier brought away a hundred or two of prisoners and slew them in the outskirts of their camp, crying out, When I started from our country, my mother, father, sister and wife told me to slay so may kAfirs for their sake after we had gained the victory in this holy war, so that the religious merit of this act [of infidel slaying] might accrue to them. In this way, thousands of soldiers and other persons were massacred. In the Shah's camp, except the quarters of himself and his nobles, every tent had a heap of severed heads before it. One may say that it was verily doomsday for the MarAtha people.'.... 158
    Ahmed Shah Durrani
  • Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
    Anthony Burgess

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