Dictionary and Thesaurus

Definition of Religious

• (a.) Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
• (a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
• (a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
• (a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
• (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.

Synonyms of Religious

• Ghostly
• Spiritual
• Spectral
• Apparitional
• Unearthly
• Phantasmal
• Ghostlike
• Sacred

Antonyms of Religious

• Unbelieving
• Nonchurchgoing
• Heathen
• Lapsed
• Nonobservant
• Pagan
• Irreligious
• Unscrupulous
• Atheistic
• Profane
• Ethnic
• Heathenish
• Atheistical
• Secular

Homophones of Religious