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adj
Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, pagan
Antonyms: Christian, Muslim, Jewish
adj
Uncultured; uncivilized; savage; barbarian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: barbarous, pagan, uncultivated, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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adj
Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
A pagan; someone who is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim (other Abrahamic or monotheistic religions may or may not be included)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: infidel
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: heathenish, pagan, ethnic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a person who does not acknowledge your god
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pagan, gentile, infidel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nonreligious person
Narrower terms: paynim, idolater, idolizer, idoliser, idol worshiper
History
From Middle English hethen, from Old English hǣþen, from Proto-West Germanic *haiþin, from Proto-Germanic *haiþīnaz (“heathen, pagan”, adjective), equivalent to heath (“heathland”) + -en. Cognate with West Frisian heiden, Dutch heiden, Middle High German heiden, German Heiden, German Heide, Swedish heden, Danish hedensk (from heden+sk), Icelandic heiðinn. See also Proto-Germanic *haiduz, Old Norse heiðr (honour, bright, moor), Icelandic heiður (honour).
From heathen.
Across languages
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