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Synonyms for religious
rɪˈlɪdʒ əsre·li·gious
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
religious
Synonyms:
pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacredAntonyms:
impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane
Princeton's WordNet
religiousadjective
a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
Antonyms:
unbelieving, nonchurchgoing, heathen, lapsed, nonobservant, atheistic, profane, ethnic, heathenish, atheistical, secular, pagan, irreligious, unscrupulousreligious, spiritualadjective
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
"religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
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ghostly, spiritual, spectral, apparitional, unearthly, phantasmal, ghostlikeAntonyms:
irreligious, secular, nonobservant, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, heathenish, atheistic, pagan, ethnic, atheistical, profane, heathen, lapsed, unscrupulousreligiousadjective
having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
"a religious man"; "religious attitude"
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spiritualAntonyms:
secular, atheistic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, nonobservant, pagan, irreligious, profane, heathenish, ethnic, atheistical, heathen, lapsedreligiousadjective
of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
"the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"
Synonyms:
spiritualAntonyms:
secular, nonobservant, heathen, lapsed, atheistical, heathenish, unbelieving, atheistic, pagan, profane, ethnic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, irreligiousreligiousadjective
extremely scrupulous and conscientious
"religious in observing the rules of health"
Synonyms:
spiritualAntonyms:
atheistical, unscrupulous, secular, unbelieving, pagan, heathen, profane, ethnic, atheistic, lapsed, nonobservant, heathenish, irreligious, nonchurchgoing
Dictionary of English Synonymes
religiousadjective
Synonyms:
devout, holy, godly, pious, devotionalreligiousadjective
Synonyms:
conscientious, scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
religiousadjective
Synonyms:
pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional, strict, exact, scrupulous, conscientious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "religious":
religion, faith-based, religions, religieux, religieuses, worship, denominational, religieuse, nuns, church, nun, faith, confessional, religiously, church-based, religion-based, clerical
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#950 | church | |
#2021 | religion | |
#2235 | religious | |
#2241 | faith | |
#3238 | holy | |
#3706 | spiritual | |
#4940 | worship | |
#6466 | divine | |
#6510 | sacred | |
#9048 | religions | |
#10893 | spectral | |
#12384 | clerical | |
#20394 | nun | |
#22243 | confessional | |
#23579 | devotional | |
#28479 | nuns | |
#31703 | godly | |
#32203 | pious | |
#34918 | denominational | |
#34948 | ghostly | |
#36092 | devout | |
#39452 | religiously | |
#79310 | unearthly | |
#212377 | religieux | |
#238767 | religieuse | |
#280933 | phantasmal | |
#289248 | religieuses | |
#301114 | ghostlike |
How to use religious in a sentence?
Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.
It is a belief that verges on the religious on the creation of their project.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950):
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
ISIS, almost everywhere, does not command broad popular support, most people in this part of the world, from Lebanon down to Egypt, are not extremist Salafist. They might be very religious, but they are not that extreme. Whenever I look at videos of ISIS parades, including in places such as Mosul, one ingredient is always missing – popular support. You don’t see big numbers participating in their parades.
The remaining decorations were removed by the decoration donor and her representatives. we acknowledge that the corrective action should have been to display the faith-specific holiday decoration along with multiple religious faith symbols.
Translations for religious
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- مؤمن, دينية, ديني, مؤمنةArabic
- ধার্মিকBengali
- religiósCatalan, Valencian
- náboženský, religiózníCzech
- religiøsDanish
- gläubig, religiösGerman
- religiaEsperanto
- religiosoSpanish
- دینی, دیندار, مذهبیPersian
- fanaattinen, uskonnollinen, uskollinen, uskovaFinnish
- religieuxFrench
- cràbhachScottish Gaelic
- relixiosoGalician
- ધાર્મિકGujarati
- דָּתִי, דָּתִיתHebrew
- धार्मिकHindi
- vallásos, megrögzött, vallásiHungarian
- keagamaan, agamisIndonesian
- דָתִיHebrew
- 信仰的, 宗教的Japanese
- دینیKurdish
- religionisLatin
- reliéisLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- reliģisks, reliģiozsLatvian
- keagamaanMalay
- godsdienstig, religieusDutch
- religijnyPolish
- religiosoPortuguese
- религиозный, верующийRussian
- vjèrskī, rèlīgījskīSerbo-Croatian
- religiösSwedish
- inançlı, dindar, dinî, dinselTurkish
- 宗教, sùng đạo, mộ đạo, tôn giáoVietnamese
- 宗教的Chinese
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