lapsed

Meanings

Verb

• pass into a specified state or condition
• end, at least for a long time
  • "The correspondence lapsed"
• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
• go back to bad behavior
• let slip
  • "He lapsed his membership"
• pass by
  • "three years elapsed"
• simple past and past participle of lapse

Adjective Satellite

• no longer active or practicing
  • "a lapsed Catholic"

Adj

• Discontinued; having ceased or gone out of use.
• Changed to a less valued condition or state; especially having lost one's religious faith.
• By extension, having changed a (secular) belief or adherence.
• Having passed from the original holder or authority; no longer claimed.

Synonyms

backslide, elapse, fall back, glide by, go along, go by, in name, lapse, nonchurchgoing, nonpracticing, pass, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by

Antonyms

devout, practicing