Word.ws English Dictionary

zaddik

zaddik is the alternative spelling of tzaddik.

Meaning of tzaddik

Noun

tzaddik (plural tzaddiks or tzaddikim)

  1. (Judaism) A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
    • For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 226

Forms of zaddik

pluralzaddiks
pluralzaddikim

Questions about zaddik

What is zaddik the alternative spelling of?
Zaddik is the alternative spelling of tzaddik.

Words near zaddik in the dictionary

  1. Zadarska
  2. zadaverine
  3. zaddick
  4. zaddicks
  5. zaddies
  6. zaddik
  7. zaddikim
  8. zaddiks
  9. zaddy
  10. Zadkiel
  11. Zadoi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zaddik (page history and authors); tzaddik (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zaddik.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zaddik. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.