Synonyms for religious
rɪˈlɪdʒ əsre·li·gious

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1. religious

   Synonyms:
   pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred

   Antonyms:
   impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane

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1. religiousadjective

   a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

   Antonyms:
   unbelieving, nonchurchgoing, heathen, lapsed, nonobservant, atheistic, profane, ethnic, heathenish, atheistical, secular, pagan, irreligious, unscrupulous

2. religious, spiritualadjective

   concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

   "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"

   Synonyms:
   ghostly, spiritual, spectral, apparitional, unearthly, phantasmal, ghostlike

   Antonyms:
   irreligious, secular, nonobservant, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, heathenish, atheistic, pagan, ethnic, atheistical, profane, heathen, lapsed, unscrupulous

3. religiousadjective

   having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity

   "a religious man"; "religious attitude"

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

   Antonyms:
   secular, atheistic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, unbelieving, nonobservant, pagan, irreligious, profane, heathenish, ethnic, atheistical, heathen, lapsed

4. religiousadjective

   of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows

   "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

   Antonyms:
   secular, nonobservant, heathen, lapsed, atheistical, heathenish, unbelieving, atheistic, pagan, profane, ethnic, unscrupulous, nonchurchgoing, irreligious

5. religiousadjective

   extremely scrupulous and conscientious

   "religious in observing the rules of health"

   Synonyms:
   spiritual

   Antonyms:
   atheistical, unscrupulous, secular, unbelieving, pagan, heathen, profane, ethnic, atheistic, lapsed, nonobservant, heathenish, irreligious, nonchurchgoing

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1. religiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   devout, holy, godly, pious, devotional

2. religiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   conscientious, scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid

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1. religiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional, strict, exact, scrupulous, conscientious

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1. List of paraphrases for "religious":

   religion, faith-based, religions, religieux, religieuses, worship, denominational, religieuse, nuns, church, nun, faith, confessional, religiously, church-based, religion-based, clerical

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1. Mary Chartier:

   I do believe that the government does not fully understand the religious practices of Dr. Attar and Dr. Attar's religion, and I think that's why we are in this courthouse today, and what we'll be fighting over for the next few months.

2. Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.:

   ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."

3. Jayne Huckerby:

   Commission members especially posited a conflict between religious freedom and women's sexual and reproductive rights, using religious freedom to read down very important rights for women, when you look at what Secretary Pompeo and commission members are concerned with.

4. Kara Brooks:

   It's absurd that her decision to teach art to children at a Christian school, and the school's religious beliefs, are under attack.

5. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   I believe in religious freedom. I believe most of us do. I mean it's the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. This is who we are. This is why this country was founded in the first place, i think that comment or plan deserved to be called out as an exception, but my rule is not to comment on the people or the ups and downs of the presidential campaign.