revered
Held in awe
Revered means deeply respected and honored, often with a sense of awe or veneration.
The word typically applies to people, traditions, or institutions that have earned widespread admiration: a revered leader, the revered tradition of afternoon tea.
Someone revered commands respect through achievement, wisdom, or moral authority rather than mere position.
Regarded with approval
- respectedHeld in high regard
- distinguishedNotable and respected
- eminentHigh in rank, respected
- illustriousWidely admired for achievements
prestigious · renowned · celebrated · acclaimed · notable · famed · influential · prominent
Dedicated to the divine
- divineOf or from gods
- sanctifiedMade sacred through blessing
- consecratedDeclared sacred through ritual
- sacrosanctRegarded as too important to alter
hallowed · blessed · saintly · spiritual · shrine · relic · altar · temple
Regarded with religious devotion
- idolizedRegarded with excessive admiration
- exaltedElevated in rank
- glorifiedPraised beyond merit
- deifiedMade into a god
apotheosized · beatified · adulated · lionized · enshrined · canonized · immortalized · mythologized
Those from whom one descends
- forebearsAncestral family members
- eldersSenior community members
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
progenitors · patriarchs · matriarchs · genealogy · clan · tribe · bloodline · forefathers
admired
Regarded with approval
- respectedHeld in high regard
- distinguishedNotable and respected
- eminentHigh in rank, respected
illustrious · prestigious · renowned · celebrated · acclaimed · notable · famed · influential · prominent · august
holy
Dedicated to the divine
- divineOf or from gods
- sanctifiedMade sacred through blessing
- consecratedDeclared sacred through ritual
sacrosanct · hallowed · blessed · saintly · spiritual · shrine · relic · altar · temple · pilgrimage
worshipped
Regarded with religious devotion
deified · apotheosized · beatified · adulated · lionized · enshrined · canonized · immortalized · mythologized · patron
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
heritage · progenitors · patriarchs · matriarchs · genealogy · clan · tribe · bloodline · forefathers · traditions
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
baron · knight · lord · lady · monarch · countess · patrician · courtly · heraldry · throne
- reputationreputation, reputable, bad reputation, repute, disreputable
- statusstatus, prestige, ranking, reputation, elite
- reveredworshipped, venerated, adored, idolized, deified
- fawnedgroveled, kowtowed, toadied, flattered, curried favor
reveredoutcast
Shunned, rejected person
pariah · shunned · ostracized · exiled · rejected
revereddishonorable
Lacking integrity or ethics
dishonourable · profaned · desecrated · defiled · blasphemed
- Paul Revere's rideRevolutionary warning mission
- Paul RevereColonial warning horseman
- reverent silenceRespectful, awed quiet
- Reverend MotherSenior nun's honorific
- reverence for lifeProfound respect for living things
- The ReverendClergy member's honorific
reverence, revere, irreverent, reverent, reverend, irreverence, revering, reverential, reveres