English Dictionary

atheist

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈeɪθiɪst/

名詞

広義 稀用 禁用

(strictly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).

日本語の意味

無神論者

Despite growing up in a religious household, my neighbor is an atheist who openly discusses why he believes no deities exist.

宗教的な家庭で育ったにもかかわらず、隣人は無神論者で、なぜ神が存在しないと考えているのかを率直に語る。

意味（1）

(strictly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).

Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […]

意味（2）

(broadly) A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).

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.

意味（3）

(loosely) A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?

意味（4）

(uncommon) A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity.

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.

意味（5）

(proscribed) A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods)

atheists （ plural ）