Pagan

Antonyms for pagan:

religious.

Synonyms for pagan:

Sense 1

iconoclast, idolater, pre-Christian.

doubter

skeptic.

wild

savage.

Other synonyms and related words:

ethnical, iconoclast, hedonist, skeptic, infidel, heathenish, savage, cultural, ethnic, pleasure seeker, idolater, gentile, goy.

irreligious (adjective)

faithless, irreverent, atheistic, nihilistic, agnostic, non-believing, idolatrous, irreligious, worldly, disbelieving, godless, unbelieving, infidel, ungodly, profane, undevout, impious, Creedless, heathen, non-practicing, secular, non-religious.

sectarian (adjective)

dissenting, animalistic, barbarous, heretic, demonical, unorthodox, sectarian, non-Christian, nonorthodox, pantheistic, iconoclastic, factional, nonreligious, nonconforming, unchristian, idolatrous, non-believing, bohemian, Fetishistic, heterodox, unscriptural, heathen, atheistic.

pagan (noun)

heathen, gentile, heathenish, infidel, irreligious.

person who does not believe in an orthodox religion (noun)

heretic, idolater, skeptic, iconoclast.

schismatic (noun)

heretic.

Usage examples for pagan:

• The city was invested with a more sacred significance than it had ever occupied under the pagan system. - "Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam", H. E. E. Hayes.
• " Bemoin, because he was a man of large size and fine presence, about forty years old, with a long and well- arranged beard, appeared indeed not like a barbarous pagan, but as one of our own princes, to whom all honour and reverence were due. - "The Life of Columbus", Arthur Helps.