Religious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity.
  • adj. Of, concerned with, or teaching religion: a religious text.
  • adj. Extremely scrupulous or conscientious: religious devotion to duty.
  • n. A member of a monastic order, especially a nun or monk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Concerning religion.
  • adj. Committed to the practice of religion.
  • adj. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
  • n. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion
  • adj. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly
  • adj. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
  • adj. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
  • n. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Imbued with, exhibiting, or arising from religion; pious; godly; devout: as, a religious man; religious behavior: used in the authorized version of the Bible of outward observance (Jas. i. 26; Acts xiii. 43).
  • Pertaining or devoted to a monastic life; belonging to a religious order; in the Roman Catholic Church, bound by the vows of a monastic order; regular.
  • Bound by or abiding by some solemn obligation; scrupulously faithful; conscientious.
  • Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching or setting forth religion; set apart for purposes connected with religion: as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects; religious books or teachers; religious liberty.
  • Synonyms Devotional.
  • Scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid. See religion.
  • n. One who is bound by monastic vows, as a monk, a friar, or a nun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
  • adj. of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
  • adj. extremely scrupulous and conscientious
  • n. a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
  • adj. having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
  • Equivalent
    sacred    scrupulous    god-fearing    devout    churchly    interfaith    churchgoing   
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    Words with the same meaning
    conscientious    pious    devout    exact    rogod    holy    strict    devotional    godly    nun   
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