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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Irreligious \Ir're*li"gious\, adjective [L. irreligiosus: cf. F. irr['e]ligieux.]
1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. {Impious}.
Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. --South.
2. Indicating a lack of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
irreligious
adjective: hostile or indifferent to religion [ant: {religious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "irreligious": amoral, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, creedless, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, godless, heretical, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, nonbelieving, nonreligious, nullifidian, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, repudiative, sacrilegious, sinful, un-Christly, unangelic, unbelieving, unchristian, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, undevout, undutiful, ungodly, unholy, unmoral, unreligious, unrighteous, unsaintly, wicked, without faith
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