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/ˌeɪθiˈɪstɪk/ Listen

adjective

Atheistical, Atheistic adj.

Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. "Atheistical explications of natural effects."

Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

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Etymology of 'Atheistic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Atheistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel. l cannot see one shadow or tittle of evidence that the great unknown ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... University from his feet. Within ten years a new Rector, quite as orthodox as the old, had invited him to replace his name on the books of the college. It was long, however, before he returned to an Oxford where only the buildings were the same. Twenty years from this date an atheistic treatise might have been written with perfect impunity by any Fellow of any college. Nobody would even have read it if atheism had been its only recommendation. The wise indifference of the wise had relieved true religion from the paralysis ...

— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul

... at Paris does not recall the burst of enthusiasm that stirred the surface? Trochu became once more popular; even the Communistic or atheistic journals refrained from complaining that he attended mass, and invited his countrymen to trust in God. Ducrot was more than popular—he ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... among men specially devoted to the study of matter, many succumb to the temptation of refusing to recognize anything as real which does not come under the experience of the senses. This however is not one of the points which offer themselves most strikingly for our examination. The atheistic manifestations of the socialist schools have more novelty, and perhaps ...

— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

... God is also necessary to a belief in Christ; the Son could not have revealed the Father to man according to any atheistic theory. And so with all other Christian doctrines: they rest upon ...

— In His Image • William Jennings Bryan