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View synonyms for heretical

heretical

[ huh-ret-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.

    Synonyms: unorthodox, radical, dissident, unconventional



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Other Words From

  • he·reti·cal·ly adverb
  • he·reti·cal·ness noun
  • nonhe·reti·cal adjective
  • nonhe·reti·cal·ly adverb
  • semi·he·reti·cal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of heretical1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word haereticālis. See heretic, -al 1

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Example Sentences

This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.

Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.

Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical, just lacking true Spirit.

He makes heretical suggestions about calling a “truce” in the culture wars.

Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.

In the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.

The Sorbonne declared, in the sixteenth century, that it was heretical to say that heretics ought not to be burned.

Thus these various national churches, all called heretical by both Greeks and Latins, continued to exist under Turkish rule.

Galling though the Irish laws were, they never went so far as to make the mere holding of heretical opinions criminal.

Massachusetts had not yet renounced her designs upon the territories of the heretical Colony.

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