English

Alternative forms

• non-practicing
• nonpractising, non-practising

Adjective

nonpracticing ‎(comparative more nonpracticing, superlative most nonpracticing)

1. Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion.
   • 1994, Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder as Michael Grates and Lelaina Pierce, Reality Bites:

     Michael: Um, uh, I guess um, I guess I'm, uh a nonpracticing Jew.
     Lelaina: Hey, I'm a nonpracticing virgin.

Synonyms

• lapsed
• nonobservant, non-observant
• nonreligious
• secular
• unobservant, un-observant

Antonyms

• practicing, practising
• observant
• religious

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