religious

Noun
  1. A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience (synset 110538195)
    is a type of: religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deity
    subtypes:
    • friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
    • monastic, monk - a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
    • benedictine - a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict
    • jesuit - a member of the Jesuit order
    • nun - a woman religious
    • eremite - a Christian recluse
    • cenobite, coenobite - a member of a religious order living in common
    • superior - the head of a religious community
    • votary - one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
    specific instances: merton, thomas merton - United States religious and writer (1915-1968)
Adjective
  1. Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church (synset 302063669)
    "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
    similar to: sacred - concerned with religion or religious purposes
    same as: spiritual
  2. Having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity (synset 301787685)
    "a religious man"; "religious attitude"
    also: pious - having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
    similar to:
  3. Of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows (synset 301787508)
    "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"
  4. Extremely scrupulous and conscientious (synset 302092886)
    "religious in observing the rules of health"
    similar to: scrupulous - having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

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