infidel
/IN-fih-del/nouna person with no religious faith; an unbeliever (often derogatory)
“Medieval chroniclers branded every foreign army an infidel horde.”
- Synonyms
- unbeliever, heathen, heretic
- Antonyms
- believer, devotee
- Root
- fid- (faith)
- Memory hook
- in (not) + fidel (faithful): one outside the faith.
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