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ultrapious

ultrapious adjective: extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.

Adjective

ultrapious (not comparable)

  1. Extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.
    • (This led the ultrapious Rabbi Eliezer Shach to acidly define Chabad as the sect closest to Judaism.)2007 September 16, Zev Chafets, “The Missionary Mogul”, in New York Times

Origin of ultrapious

From ultra- + pious.

Questions about ultrapious

What does ultrapious mean?
Ultrapious means extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.
What part of speech is ultrapious?
Ultrapious is an adjective.

Words near ultrapious in the dictionary

  1. ultraphotomicrographs
  2. ultraphysical
  3. ultraphytoplankton
  4. ultraphytoplanktonic
  5. ultraphytoplanktons
  6. ultrapious
  7. ultraplanetary
  8. ultraplankton
  9. ultraplinian
  10. ultrapolarized
  11. ultrapolish

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