Meaning
heretic
In a sentence
Marco è un eretico della dieta, mangia sempre dolci.
Marco is a diet heretic; he always eats sweets.
Hai davvero chiamato eretico il tuo amico del caffè?
Did you really call your coffee-loving friend a heretic?
Nel Medioevo molti eretici furono perseguitati.
In the Middle Ages many heretics were persecuted.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| eretico | masculine · singular |
| eretici | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- Often used figuratively for someone who rejects accepted ideas, not only in religion.
- More formal and stronger than ribelle or anticonformista; it suggests violating doctrine or orthodoxy.
- As a noun and adjective, it agrees in gender and number: eretico, eretica, eretici, eretiche.