religious
/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒəs/
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New Zealand/ɹəˈləd͡ʒəs/
religious adjective: concerning religion.
Adjective
religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)
- Concerning religion.
- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever...1787 September 17, Constitutional Convention, Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, page 4
- Antonyms:
- secular
- 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.
- Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
- Near-synonym: monastic
- religious clergy
- Synonyms:
- monastic
Noun
religious (plural religious or religiouses)
- 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.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 354
religious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
religious in Hindi
- concerning religion
- धार्मिक dhārmik
- committed to the practice of religion
- धार्मिक dhārmik
religious in Marathi
- concerning religion
- धार्मिक dhārmik
- committed to the practice of religion
- धार्मिक dhārmik
religious in Urdu
- religious, pious, devout
- دین دار dīn dār
- religious
- مذہبی mazhabī, دینی dīnī
- religious, devout, pious
- دھارمک dhārmik
More languagesFewer languages
- religious in Bengali
- ধার্মিক dharmik
- religious in Telugu
- మతపరమైన, మతపరమైనవి
- religious in Malayalam
- മതപരമായ, ഈശ്വരവിശ്വാസം കൂടിയ, ധർമ്മനിഷ്ഠമായ
- religious in Kannada
- ಅರವಟ್ಟೆ, ಅರದ, ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ, ಧರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ
- religious in Punjabi
- ਧਾਰਮਿਕ, ਧਾਰਮਿਕਤਾ
- religious in Gujarati
- ધાર્મિક dhārmik
- religious in Odia
- ଧାର୍ମିକ
- religious in Sanskrit
- स्नान snāna
- religious in Nepali
- धार्मिक
- religious in Arabic
- دِينِيّ dīniyy, مُتَدَيِّنٌ mutadayyinun, دَيِّنٌ dayyinun
- religious in Malay
- keagamaan
- religious in Indonesian
- keagamaan, agamawi, religius, agamis
- religious in Persian
- دینی dini, دیندار dindâr, مذهبی mazhabi
- religious in Vietnamese
- tôn giáo, sùng đạo, mộ đạo
Examples of religious in a sentence
- Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons.2025 February 14, Collin Binkley, “Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines”, in...
- The religious vows are either simple or solemn.1878, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, page 236:
- The religious priest lives his priesthood vocation within the religious congregation to which he belongs.2001, John P. Mack, Priests: An Inside Look, Saint Mary's Press, →ISBN, page 28:
- Divergence in religious rule and observance for women within the Franciscan order undoubtedly complicated the assimilation of the Irish Poor Clare sisters within Spanish convents.2022 October 18, Bronagh Ann McShane, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, Boydell &...
Synonyms of religious
Antonyms
- secular
- irreligious
- profane
- atheistic
- areligious
- antonym(s) of
- diocesan
Forms of religious
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more religious |
| superlative | most religious |
| Noun | |
| plural | religious |
| plural | religiouses |
Origin of religious
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.
Words formed from religious
- 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
- religious freedom
- religious humanism
- religious humanist
- religious institute
- religious leader
- religious liberty
- religiouslike
- religiously
- religious naturalism
- religious naturalist
- religiousness
- religious none
- religious order
- religious pluralism
- religious police
- religious priest
- religious right
- religious service
- religious studies
- religious text
Phrases with religious
- religious nones
- religious texts
- religious orders
- religious rights
- are you religious
- I'm not religious
- religious leaders
- religious tourism
- Religious Zionism
- religious freedoms
- religious services
- religious humanists
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Words that rhyme with religious
Questions about religious
- What does religious mean?
- Religious means concerning religion.
- What is religious in Hindi?
- Religious in Hindi is धार्मिक (dhārmik). See Religious meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use religious in a sentence?
- Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons.
- What part of speech is religious?
- Religious can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce religious?
- Religious is pronounced /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒəs/.
Words near religious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: religious (page history and authors); religious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دھارمک (Urdu) (page history and authors); religious (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); religious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); religious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); religious (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); religious (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); स्नान (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); religious (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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