religious
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)
- Concerning religion.
- 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, DOI:, archived from the original on 20 December 2014, pages 219-257:
- Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
AntonymsEdit
- (concerning religion): irreligious, profane, secular, atheistic
- (committed to religion): areligious, irreligious
- (highly dedicated): casual
Derived termsEdit
- alethoreligious
- aletho-religious
- antireligious
- anti-religious
- areligious
- ethico-religious
- ethicoreligious
- ethnoreligious
- ethno-religious
- hyperreligious
- hyporeligious
- interreligious
- inter-religious
- irreligious
- military-religious
- multireligious
- neoreligious
- non-religious
- nonreligious
- paleoreligious
- parareligious
- prereligious
- pro-religious
- proreligious
- pseudoreligious
- pseudo-religious
- quasi-religious
- quasireligious
- religious education
- religious leader
- religiously
- religiousness
- religious order
- religious studies
- unreligious
Related termsEdit
- alethoreligion
- aletho-religion
- anti-religion
- antireligion
- antireligiosity
- areligiosity
- coreligionist
- co-religionist
- hyperreligion
- hyperreligiosity
- hyporeligion
- hyporeligiosity
- interreligiosity
- interreligiously
- irreligion
- irreligiosity
- irreligiously
- irreligiousness
- metareligion
- neoreligion
- nonreligion
- nonreligiosity
- nonreligiousness
- paleoreligion
- parareligion
- para-religion
- post-religion
- postreligion
- prereligion
- pre-religion
- proreligion
- pro-religion
- proreligiosity
- pseudoreligion
- pseudo-religion
- quasi-religion
- quasireligion
- quasireligiosity
- religion
- religionise
- religionism
- religionist
- religionize
- religionless
- religion-specific
- religiosity
- subreligion
- superreligion
TranslationsEdit
concerning religion
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committed to the practice of religion
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highly dedicated
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NounEdit
religious (plural religious or religiouses)
- A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:
- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:
HyponymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
member of religious order
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Further readingEdit
- religious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- religious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.