'Religious' definitions:
Definition of 'religious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; "a religious man"; "religious attitude" [ant: irreligious]
adjective
Of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows; "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service" [ant: secular]
adjective
Extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health"
noun
A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
Definition of 'Religious'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Religious'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God. --Mlton [1913 Webster]
- 3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict. [1913 Webster]
- Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. [1913 Webster]
- One of them is religious. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'religious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- accurate,
- adoring,
- anthropomorphic,
- anthropotheistic,
- ascetic,
- attentive,
- awesome,
- awful,
- beadsman,
- believing,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- canonic,
- careful,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- 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,
- God-fearing,
- godly,
- grand prior,
- heavenly,
- hermit,
- hieromonach,
- holy,
- honest,
- honorable,
- ineffable,
- inenarrable,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- inexpressible,
- infallible,
- inviolable,
- inviolate,
- just,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- Mariological,
- 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
Words containing 'Religious'
- Religiously,
- Religiousness,
- Religious liberty,
- festivals religious,
- religious belief,
- religious ceremony,
- religious cult,
- religious doctrine,
- religious festival,
- religious holiday,
- religious leader,
- religious movement,
- religious music,
- religious mystic,
- religious mysticism,
- religious offering,
- religious order,
- religious orientation,
- religious outcast,
- religious person,
- religious residence,
- religious right,
- religious rite,
- religious ritual,
- religious school,
- religious sect,
- religious service,
- religious song,
- religious text,
- religious trance,
- religious writing,
- quasi-religious,
- religious society of friends