religious
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Our law forbids at their religious rites
My presence. --Milton.
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2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as,
a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
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Men whose lives
Religious titled them the sons of God. --Mlton
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3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
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Thus, Indianlike,
Religious in my error, I adore
The sun, that looks upon his worshiper. --Shak.
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4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
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One of them is religious. --Chaucer.
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Syn: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious;
strict; rogod; exact.
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from
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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