Definitions for infidel

infidel in·fi·del

Spelling: [in-fi-dl, -del]
IPA: /ˈɪn fɪ dl, -ˌdɛl/

Infidel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in infidel (defiiln).

Definitions for infidel

noun

  1. Religion. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, especially a Muslim. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kafir (def 2).
  2. a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
  3. (loosely) a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic.

adjective

  1. not accepting a particular faith, especially Christianity or Islam; heathen.
  2. without religious faith.
  3. due to or manifesting unbelief:
  4. rejecting the Christian religion while accepting no other; not believing in the Bible or any Christian divine revelation.
  5. Also, infidelic [in-fi-del-ik] /ˌɪn fɪˈdɛl ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or characteristic of unbelievers or infidels.

Origin of infidel

1425-75; late Middle English Late Latin infidēlis “unbelieving,” Latin: “unfaithful, treacherous.” See in-3, feal

Examples for infidel

From inside the apartment, he could hear people calling him an infidel and debating whether to kill him on the spot.

Leaflets were widely distributed during that era saying that facial covering was what separated the Muslim woman from the infidel.

I was, of course, a woman; I was an infidel; and I was alone.

Safi makes the same threat toward other villagers and warns them never again to help a wounded “infidel” soldier.

It represented the triumph of the Papacy over the infidel of all dates.

It is immaterial if the infidel is a combatant or a civilian.

Let them boast of their Moorish gallantry and their infidel marriages—a fig for them!

She must have been a bad one like her brother, who was an infidel, they say, and did not know or fear God.

Already a Christian, could she hope for the success of the infidel?

His wife could not help the sudden thought, "But if we had had an infidel or agnostic son?"

Word Value for infidel
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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