atheist

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
    — Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist, is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. […] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief."
  2. A person who does not believe in deities or gods.; A person who is certain that no deities exist or who thinks that the existence of deities can be disproven.
    — Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […]
  3. A person who does not believe in deities or gods.; A person who doubts the existence of deities (therefore, an agnostic may be considered an atheist). broadly
    — Minister—Are you really an Atheist? Atheist—Yes. M.—Do you deny that there is a god? A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely.
  4. A person who does not believe in deities or gods.; Any person lacking belief in deities (including children who are unaware of religion).
    — All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
  5. A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity). uncommon
    — Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.
  6. A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person. proscribed,sometimes
    — This is one of the strongest Grounds of Suspicion to me, and assures me that he has very little Regard to Religion in general; that he can pretend to marry you, and know nothing whether you are a Heathen or Christian; an Atheist or religious Person, a Papist or a Protestant; the Man can have no great Value for Religion, that is so little concerned whether his Wife has any, or no; for I take the Thing to weigh as much on one Side as on the other, where there is any serious Confideration at Bottom.
动词 v.
  1. To make someone an atheist. rare,transitive
    — The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
    — He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.

词形变化

atheists plural more atheist comparative most atheist superlative atheists present,singular,third-person atheisting participle,present atheisted participle,past atheisted past

词汇关系

近义词
nontheist atheitard gaytheist
反义词
theist
上位词
bright apistevist
下位词
azeusist gnostic atheist hard atheist neo-atheist new atheist soft atheist
相关词
aatheist atheism atheistic atheistical atheophobia monotheist pantheist polytheist theist agnostic deist pandeist ignostic apatheist God hypothesis

词源

词源 1
From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
词源 2
From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
词源 3
From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
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