Heathen

Adjective

 * 1) not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
 * 2)  uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
 * 3) pertaining to currents of Germanic neo-paganism known as Heathenry.

Noun

 * 1) A person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.
 * 2)  An uncultured or uncivilized  person, philistine.
 * 3) Self-designation of some adherents of neo-paganism.

Derived terms

 * heathendom
 * heathenish
 * heathenism
 * heathenize
 * heathenness

Adjectives for Heathen
benighted; tiresome.

Thesaurus
Gothic, Philistine, agnostic, allotheist, allotheistic, animist, animistic, atheist, atheistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bibliolatrous, bookless, chthonian, deceived, disbeliever, disbelieving, doubting, ethnic, faithless, fetishistic, functionally illiterate, gentile, godless, grammarless, heathenish, heretic, heretical, hoodwinked, idol worshiping, idolater, idolatress, idolatric, idolatrical, idolatrous, idolistic, ill-educated, illiterate, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, led astray, lowbrow, minimifidian, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonbeliever, nonintellectual, nullifidian, pagan, paganish, paganistic, pagano-Christian, pantheistic, polytheist, polytheistic, primitive, profane, rude, savage, sceptic, sceptical, secularist, unbeliever, unbelieving, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored, zoolatrous

Etymology
Germanic: from hæþen, akin to heath on the moor, the poor, 'wild' countryside; cognate with Dutch heiden, German Heide.

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: heidens, ongelowig
 * Armenian: հեթանոսական
 * Dutch: heidens, ongelovig
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Mandarin: 異教的
 * Portuguese: pagão
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hednisk


 * Afrikaans: barbaars
 * Dutch: barbaars, heidens, onbeschaafd


 * Finnish:
 * Russian:


 * Danish: hedensk
 * Dutch: heidens
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Portuguese: pagão
 * Spanish:


 * : heiðinn

Noun

 * Afrikaans: heiden, heidene, ongelowige, ongelowiges
 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Mandarin: 異教徒
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hedning
 * Nynorsk: heidning


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: barbaar, barbare
 * Dutch: barbaar, filistijn
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ακαλλιέργητος
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans: heiden, heidene
 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Russian: язычник, родновер
 * Spanish:


 * : infidèle, païen
 * : heiðingi
 * : pagano


 * : pohan
 * : hedning