n. 1 unbeliever, infidel, pagan, idolater or idolatress, polytheist, atheist, nullifidian, sceptic, agnostic, heretic One often finds more mercy in a heathen than in a brother Christian
adj. 2 infidel, pagan, atheist(ic), godless, nullifidian, sceptic(al), doubting, agnostic, heretical, irreligious After the missionaries left, the tribe returned to their heathen practices 3 savage, barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, primitive, unenlightened, uncultured, Philistine; polytheistic, pantheistic Each of these tribesmen carries with him a tiny sculptured image of the heathen god