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relig.

relig. is the abbreviation of religious.

relig. is the abbreviation of religion.

Meaning of religious

Adjective

religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

  1. Concerning religion.
    • It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
    Antonyms:
    secular
  2. Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
    • I was much less religious as a teenager than I am now.
  3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
    • I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
  4. Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
    • Near-synonym: monastic
    Synonyms:
    monastic

See all 5 meanings of religious

Meaning of religion

Noun

religion (countable and uncountable, plural religions)

  1. (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
    • Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
    Synonyms:
    theism, faith, belief
  2. (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
    • Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
    Synonyms:
    faith, credo, creed
  3. (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
    • The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
  4. (informal, uncountable) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
    • I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
    Synonyms:
    superstition
  5. (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
    • At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
  6. (obsolete, uncountable) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
    • Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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Forms of relig.

pluralreligs.

Questions about relig.

What is relig. the abbreviation of?
Relig. is the abbreviation of religious.

Words near relig. in the dictionary

  1. relift
  2. relifted
  3. relifting
  4. relifts
  5. relig
  6. relig.
  7. religate
  8. religated
  9. religates
  10. religating
  11. religation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: relig. (page history and authors); religious (page history and authors); religion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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