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. Faiz Shakur:

   I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies, it will not be racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and religious bigotry.

2. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee:

   When you have this attitude that is more about promoting gay marriage and gay rights in the military than it is about being able to protect religious liberty for those people of faith, it's going to be hard to find people that are truly devoted people of faith and Christian believers and Orthodox Jews and others.

3. Thomas Jefferson:

   Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

4. David Kinnaman:

   Based upon the fact that millions of Americans see an escalating threat to religious freedom, we anticipate that more people will feel the need to stand up for their religious convictions in a public manner.

5. Paul Carlos Southwick:

   My clients feel betrayed by an administration the promised to protect LGBTQ + students, the Biden administration did not need to defend this unconstitutional religious exemption, and they certainly did not need to say that The Biden administration' shares the same ultimate objective' as anti-LGBTQ extremist group Alliance Defending Freedom.