religious
adjEtymology
From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō. Doublet of religieux.
- derived from religious
- derived from religieus
- inherited from religiouse
Definitions
Concerning religion.
- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- I was much less religious as a teenager than I am now.
Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
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Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
- Near-synonym: monastic
- religious clergy
- religious priest
A member of a religious order, congregation, or certain other forms of consecrated life,…
A member of a religious order, congregation, or certain other forms of consecrated life, i.e. a monk, nun, sister, brother, friar, or other religious priest.
- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.
The neighborhood
- antonymirreligiousantonym(s) of “concerning religion”
- antonymprofaneantonym(s) of “concerning religion”
- antonymsecularantonym(s) of “concerning religion”
- antonymatheisticantonym(s) of “concerning religion”
- antonymareligiousantonym(s) of “committed to religion”
- antonymantonym(s) of
- antonymdiocesanantonym(s) of “pertaining to a religious order”
- neighboralethoreligion
- neighboraletho-religion
- neighboranti-religion
- neighborantireligion
- neighborantireligiosity
- neighborareligiosity
- neighborcoreligionist
- neighborco-religionist
- neighborhyperreligion
- neighborhyperreligiosity
- neighborhyporeligion
- neighborhyporeligiosity
Derived
alethoreligious, aletho-religious, antireligious, anti-religious, areligious, criminal religious movement, ethicoreligious, ethico-religious, ethno-religious, ethnoreligious, hyperreligious, hyporeligious, interreligious, inter-religious, intrareligious, irreligious, magicoreligious, medicoreligious, military-religious, misreligious, monoreligious, multireligious, neoreligious, new religious movement, nonreligious, non-religious, overreligious, paleoreligious, parareligious, politicoreligious, postreligious, prereligious, proreligious, pro-religious, protoreligious, pseudoreligious, pseudo-religious, quasireligious, quasi-religious, religious education · +29 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at religious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at religious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at religious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA