Adjective: irreligious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more irreligious |
| Superlative | most irreligious |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he virtuous reader may condemn her for showing too great regard to a base-born infant, to which all charity is condemned by law as irreligious […] [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:]
Adjectives inflected like irreligious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin irreligiōsus. By surface analysis, ir- + religious. See: Latin Adjectives '
irreligiōsus'.