religious
Pertaining to worship
Religious describes connection to or concern with religion—systems of faith, worship, and spiritual practice.
A religious person holds beliefs about the divine; a religious text or ceremony belongs to a faith tradition.
Extended uses suggest devotion approaching worship: She's religious about her morning run.
Religious can also mean belonging to a monastic order: a religious community of nuns.
Address to deity
- templeSacred worship structure
- churchPlace of Christian worship
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- synagogueJewish house of worship
shrine · cathedral · chapel · monastery · congregation · clergy · priest · imam
Focused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
asceticism · soul · salvation · afterlife · reincarnation · nirvana · moksha · karma
Formal event marking occasions
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- riteCeremonial act or practice
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- prayerAddress to deity
fasting · pilgrimage · offering · baptism · communion · confirmation · ordination · matrimony
Trust held as true
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
- convictionFirmly held belief
- theismBelief in deity
atheism · agnosticism · secularism · holiness · sacredness · sanctity · reverence · dogma
prayer
Address to deity
synagogue · shrine · cathedral · chapel · monastery · congregation · clergy · priest · imam · rabbi
meditation
Focused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
mysticism · asceticism · soul · salvation · afterlife · reincarnation · nirvana · moksha · karma · dharma
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
prayer · fasting · pilgrimage · offering · baptism · communion · confirmation · ordination · matrimony · anointing
belief
Trust held as true
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
- convictionFirmly held belief
theism · atheism · agnosticism · secularism · holiness · sacredness · sanctity · reverence · dogma · creed
- event adjectivesannual, scheduled, planned, recurring, upcoming
- lifestylessimple living, city life, family life, minimalism, rural life
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, theist
- organization typesnonprofit, for-profit, corporate, governmental, private
- speech registersformal, informal, casual, colloquial, vernacular
- papal congregationsdivine worship, evangelization
religiousatheistic
Denying deities exist
godless · nonreligious · irreligious · unbelieving · nonbelieving
- religious exemptionBelief excuses compliance
- religious schoolsFaith-based educational institutions
- world religionGlobally practiced belief system
- ancient religionsSpiritual practices of antiquity
- religious persecutionHarming others for faith
- freedom of religionRight to practice any faith
religion, religions, religiously, nonreligious, irreligion, irreligious, religiosity, religiousness, unreligious