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religious
[ ri-lij-uhs ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or concerned with religion:
a religious holiday.
a religious man.
Synonyms: reverent
Antonyms: impious
- scrupulously faithful; conscientious:
religious care.
Synonyms: rigorous, meticulous, strict, scrupulous
- pertaining to or connected with a monastic or religious order.
- appropriate to religion or to sacred rites or observances.
noun
- a member of a religious order, congregation, etc.; a monk, friar, or nun.
- the religious, devout or religious persons:
Each year, thousands of the religious make pilgrimages to the shrine.
religious
/ rɪˈlɪdʒəs /
adjective
- of, relating to, or concerned with religion
- pious; devout; godly
- ( as collective noun ; preceded by the )
the religious
- appropriate to or in accordance with the principles of a religion
- scrupulous, exact, or conscientious
- Christianity of or relating to a way of life dedicated to religion by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and defined by a monastic rule
noun
- Christianity a member of an order or congregation living by such a rule; a monk, friar, or nun
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Derived Forms
- reˈligiousness, noun
- reˈligiously, adverb
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Other Words From
- re·li·gious·ly adverb
- re·li·gious·ness noun
- an·ti·re·li·gious adjective
- non·re·li·gious adjective
- non·re·li·gious·ness noun
- o·ver·re·li·gious adjective
- pre·re·li·gious adjective
- pseu·do·re·li·gious adjective
- qua·si-re·li·gious adjective
- ul·tra·re·li·gious adjective
- ul·tra·re·li·gious·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of religious1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.
The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
It is the kind of compassion espoused by every world religion and every revered religious leader.
But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
In my search for answers about who I was, I pored over religious texts in search of enlightenment.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
Hence arise factions, dissensions, and loss to their religious interests and work; and these intruders seek to rule the others.
So much for the attitude of the various schools of religious thought towards the Bible.
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