EGAVE

religious

About 94.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Concerning religion.
    It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
  2. adjective Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
    I was much less religious as a teenager than I am now.
  3. adjective Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
    I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
  4. adjective Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
    religious clergy
  5. noun 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.

Similar words

god-fearing interfaith devout pious sacred churchly churchgoing churchlike spiritual scrupulous

Often followed by

and life beliefs experience belief or education faith freedom instruction

Word family

religiously religiousness religiousnesses

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