Rejecting a specific religion.
Of, characteristic of, or relating to unbelievers or unbelief.
(...) how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth;(...)
One who does not believe in a certain religion.
The infidel writer is a greater enemy to society.
One who does not believe in a certain principle.
One with no religious beliefs.
First attested 1460, from Middle French infidèle, from Latin īnfidēlis (“unfaithful”), from in- (“not”) + fidēlis (“faithful”). See fidelity.
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