Thesaurus:believer

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believer

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Noun

Sense: adherent of a religion

Synonyms

• believer
• devotee
• devotionalist
• pietist
• religioner
• religionist

Antonyms

• atheist
•   —
• apostate
•   —
• disbeliever
• infidel
• irreligionist
• nonbeliever
• unbeliever
•   —
• heretic

Hyponyms

By religion (coarse-grained)

• African traditionalist
• animist
• Asatruar
• Baháʼí
• Buddhist
• Caodaiist
• Christian
• Confucian
• Confucianist
• deist
• Druid
• Eckist
• folk religionist
• freethinker
• Gnostic
• heathen
• Hindu
• humanist
• Jain
• Jew    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Jucheist
• LaVeyan
• Luciferian
• Muslim    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mysticist
• New Ager
• New Thoughter
• occultist
• Odinist
• pagan
• Raëlian
• Rastafarian
• religious humanist
• Santerían
• Satanist
• Scientologist
• shamanist
• Shintoist
• Sikh
• spiritist
• Taoist
• Tenrikyoist
• Thelemite
• theosophist
• Unitarian
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Yoruban
• Zoroastrian

By religion (fine-grained)

• Abelian
• Abelite
• Abelonian
• Amish
• Anabaptist
• Anglican
• Augustinian
• Baptist
• Calvinist
• Catholic
• Covenanter
• Dominican
• Franciscan
• Hutterite
• Lutheran
• Mennonite
• Methodist
• Monophysite
• Mormon
• Nicolaitan
• pietist
• Protestant
• Puritan
• Quaker
• Shaker
• Shi'a
• Sufi
• Sunni

By position

• imam
• kerygmatist
• minister
• monk
• nun
• priest
• rabbi
• saint
• votary

General

• atheist
• theist
•   —
• catechumen
• churchgoer
• churchman
• communicant
• convert
• crusader
• cultist
• fanatic
• fideist
• Gospel grinder
• jihadist
• neophyte
• proselyte
• religtard (pejorative)
• worshipper
• zealot

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• church    [⇒ thesaurus]
• congregation
• cult
• denomination
• faith
• religion    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sect

See also

• Thesaurus:religism

Further reading

• “987. piety” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “believer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• List of religions