heretic
Meaning of heretic
noun
a person believing in or practising religious heresy.
Middle English: from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos ‘able to choose’ (in ecclesiastical Greek, ‘heretical’), from haireomai ‘choose’.
Information about heretic
- It is a name.
- The plural form of heretic is: heretics.
- Languages in which heretic is used:
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Hyphenation of heretic
heretic
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- heretic is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
heretic synonyms
Meaning misbeliever:
Meaning a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state:
Meaning a person who dissents:
Meaning a person who does not conform to prevailing ideas or practices in their behaviour or views:
Meaning a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle:
Meaning a person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those concerning religious belief:
Meaning a person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs or institutions:
Meaning (especially in the Christian Church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group:
Meaning a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles:
Meaning a person or thing that interrupts an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem:
Meaning a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions:
Meaning a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God:
Meaning a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods:
Meaning someone who has no religious beliefs, or who does not follow a particular religion:
Meaning a person who worships an idol or idols:
Meaning a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions:
Meaning a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do:
Meaning a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender:
Meaning a member of a sect:
Meaning a supporter of a policy of revision or modification:
Meaning a coward:
Meaning a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation:
Meaning a person having no faith or religious belief:
Meaning a non-Christian, especially a Muslim:
heretic antonyms
Meaning a person who conforms to accepted behaviour or established practices:
Meaning a person who believes in the truth or existence of something:
Translation of heretic
Anagrams of heretic
erethic, etheric, heteric, Terchie, techier, teicher
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