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Defenition of the word religious

    • Defenition of the word religious

      • Believing in and showing reverence for God or a deity.
      • having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; "a religious man"; "religious attitude"
      • extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health"
      • a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
      • concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "monks of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
      • relating to or concerned with religion or spiritual things; especially dedicated to service in a religion; "a monk of a religious order"; "spiritual leaders"; "religious books"; "spiritual songs"
      • concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
      • of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
      • having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
      • concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
      • extremely scrupulous and conscientious

    Synonyms for the word religious

      • devout
      • dutiful
      • holy
      • pious
      • sacred
      • spiritual

    Similar words in the religious

      • churchgoing
      • churchlike
      • churchly
      • devout
      • god-fearing
      • interfaith
      • pious
      • religious
      • religiously
      • sacred
      • scrupulous

    Hyponyms for the word religious

      • Benedictine
      • cenobite
      • coenobite
      • eremite
      • friar
      • Jesuit
      • mendicant
      • Merton
      • monastic
      • monk
      • nun
      • superior
      • Thomas Merton
      • votary

    Hypernyms for the word religious

      • religionist
      • religious person

    Antonyms for the word religious

      • irreligious
      • secular

    Idioms for the word religious

      • religious house

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