nonpracticing
adjEtymology From non- + practicing.
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.
- Michael: Um, uh, I guess um, I guess I'm, uh a nonpracticing Jew. Lelaina: Hey, I'm a nonpracticing virgin.1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Michael Grates and Lelaina Pierce (Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder):
- Synonyms
- lapsed, nonobservant, nonreligious, secular, unobservant
- Antonyms
- practicing, observant, religious