RELIGIOUS DEFINITIONS - 12 definitions found
religious adj 1: 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" [syn: religious, spiritual] 2: having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; "a religious man"; "religious attitude" [ant: irreligious] 3: of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows; "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service" [ant: secular] 4: extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health" n 1: a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience religious - sugod Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) religious I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French religius, from Latin religiosus, from religio Date: 13th century 1. relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity <a religious person> <religious attitudes> 2. of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances <joined a religious order> 3. a. scrupulously and conscientiously faithful b. fervent, zealous • religiously adverb • religiousness noun II. noun (plural religious) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French religius, from religius, adjective Date: 13th century a member of a religious order under monastic vows Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary religious Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use religious to describe things that are connected with religion or with one particular religion. ...religious groups. ...different religious beliefs. ADJ: ADJ n • religiously India has always been one of the most religiously diverse countries. ADV: usu ADV adj/adv, ADV -ed 2. Someone who is religious has a strong belief in a god or gods. They are both very religious and felt it was a gift from God. ADJ 3. see also religiously English Explanatory Dictionary religious rɪˈlɪdʒəs adj. & n. --adj. 1 devoted to religion; pious, devout. 2 of or concerned with religion. 3 of or belonging to a monastic order. 4 scrupulous, conscientious (a religious attention to detail). --n. (pl. same) a person bound by monastic vows. øøreligiously adv. religiousness n. [ME f. AF religius, OF religious f. L religiosus (as RELIGION)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Religious \Re*li"gious\, 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. --Addison. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Religious \Re*li"gious\ (r?-l?j"?s), a. [OF. religius, religious, F. religieux, from L. religiosus. See Religion.] 1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence. --Milton. 2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc. Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God. --Mlton 3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict. Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper. --Shak. 4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. One of them is religious. --Chaucer. Syn: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms religious a. 1. Devout, holy, godly, pious, devotional. 2. Conscientious, scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) religious rɪˈlɪdʒəs adj. 1 devout, churchgoing, pious, God-fearing, holy, spiritual-minded: You never struck me as a particularly religious person. 2 scrupulous, exact, precise, conscientious, rigorous, strict, fastidious, meticulous, faithful, punctilious, unerring, unswerving, undeviating: Edmund's work is characterized by religious devotion to detail. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 157 Moby Thesaurus words for "religious": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God-fearing, Mariological, abbacomes, abbot, accurate, adoring, anthropomorphic, anthropotheistic, ascetic, attentive, awesome, awful, beadsman, believing, brother, caloyer, canonic, careful, celibate, cenobite, churchgoing, close, conscientious, constant, conventual, conventual prior, correct, cosmotheistic, critical, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deistic, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, direct, ditheistic, divine, doctrinal, doctrinary, dutiful, ethical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, friar, fussy, godly, grand prior, heavenly, hermit, hieromonach, holy, honest, honorable, ineffable, inenarrable, inerrable, inerrant, inexpressible, infallible, inviolable, inviolate, just, lay abbot, lay brother, mathematical, mendicant, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, monastic, monk, monotheistic, moral, narrow, nice, noble, numinous, overconscientious, overscrupulous, palmer, pantheistic, particular, physicomorphic, physicotheological, pietistic, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, pinpoint, pious, polytheistic, prayerful, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prior, punctilious, punctual, refined, religieux, religiously exact, reverent, reverential, righteous, rigid, rigorous, sacred, sacrosanct, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, severe, solemn, spiritual, spiritual-minded, square, staunch, steadfast, strict, stylite, subtle, tender-conscienced, theistic, theological, tritheistic, true, undeviating, unerring, unspeakable, unswerving, untouchable, unutterable, upright, venerable, venerational, venerative, virtuous, worshipful |
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