fallen away
No longer believing
Fallen away describes someone who has gradually abandoned a belief, practice, or affiliation—especially religious faith.
A fallen away Catholic no longer attends mass or observes church teachings.
The phrase suggests drift rather than dramatic break, a slow lapsing from what once held meaning.
- backslideRevert to bad habits
- apostatizeAbandon one's religion
- disintegrateBreak into fragments
- waneDecrease gradually
- abandonLeave behind permanently
lose faith · corrupt · lapse · crumble · recede · defect · forsake · cast aside · deteriorate · renounce · stray · diminish · degenerate · fade · erode · come undone · ebb · betray
- ex-believersapostate, ex-believer, former believer, lapsed, deconvert
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, theist
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- Unbeliefatheism, agnosticism, irreligion, nonbelief, disbelief