nonpracticingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From non- +‎ practicing.

形容詞

nonpracticing (not comparable)

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, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Michael Grates and Lelaina Pierce (Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder):

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

同意語

• lapsed
• nonobservant
• nonreligious
• secular
• unobservant

反意語

• practicing
• observant
• religious