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Synonyms for pagan

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heathen, idolater, gentile, pantheist, Pyrrhonist, skeptic, doubter, scoffer, heretic, unbeliever, nonbeliever, infidel, paynim, Philistine, Zoroastrian, animist, polytheist, freethinker, atheist, agnostic; see also atheist, skeptic.

Antonyms Christian*, Jew, Muslim.

pagan and heathen are both applied to polytheistic peoples, but pagan often refers specifically to ancient peoples, esp. the Greeks and Romans, and heathen is applied to peoples regarded as uncivilized or primitive idolaters; gentile (often Gentile) is applied to one who is not a Jew, or, among Mormons, to one who is not a Mormon

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