religious

• Holy Joe
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• abbess
• abbot
• anchoress
• ancress
• angelic
• angelical
• archbishop
• archpriest
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• ascetic
• ascetical
• beatified
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• blazing
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• canonized
• chaplain
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• chaste
• cherubic
• churchman
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• clergyperson
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• friar
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• godly
• gung ho
• gushing
• gushy
• hallowed
• high priest
• high priestess
• histrionic
• holy
• hot-blooded
• impassioned
• incandescent
• infatuated
• intense
• keen
• liturgical
• maudlin
• mawkish
• melodramatic
• mendicant
• minister
• missionary
• missioner
• missionizer
• monastic
• monk
• monsignor
• moral
• mother superior
• mushy
• novice
• nun
• oblate
• obsessed
• on fire
• orgiastic
• overemotional
• overexcited
• overheated
• padre
• parson
• passional
• passionate
• pastor
• perfervid
• pietistic
• pious
• pope
• prayerful
• preacher
• prelate
• presbyter
• priestess
• prioress
• pure
• rector
• red-hot
• religiose
• reverend
• reverent
• reverential
• revivalist
• righteous
• ritual
• saccharine
• sacramental
• sacred
• sacrosanct
• sainted
• saintly
• sanctified
• sappy
• schmaltzy
• semireligious
• semisacred
• sentimental
• shepherd
• sister
• sky pilot
• sloppy
• solemn
• spiritual
• sugary
• superheated
• torrid
• uninhibited
• unreserved
• unrestrained
• upright
• vehement
• venerable
• vicar
• virtuous
• votary
• warm
• warm-blooded
• worshipful
• zealous

• antireligious
• backsliding
• blasphemous
• cold
• cool
• desecrating
• detached
• dispassionate
• dry
• earthly
• emotionless
• evil
• faithless
• godless
• immoral
• impassive
• impersonal
• impious
• iniquitous
• irreligious
• irreverent
• lay reader
• layman
• layperson
• lector
• miscreant
• mundane
• nonreligious
• objective
• profanatory
• profane
• reserved
• sacrilegious
• secular
• sinful
• sinning
• terrene
• terrestrial
• undemonstrative
• unemotional
• unfaithful
• ungodly
• unholy
• unrighteous
• unspiritual
• wicked
• worldly

• noun
  1. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
• adjective
  1. Concerning religion.
  2. Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
  3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

• She comes from a very religious family that attends church every week.
• The country celebrates several religious holidays throughout the year.
• He became more religious after traveling to sacred places around the world.
• There are many religious traditions that vary between different cultures.
• The school allows students to express their religious beliefs freely.

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