Entry Word: religious

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 of, relating to, or used in the practice or worship services of a religion <J.S. Bach wrote some of the most beautiful religious music in the world>

Synonyms devotional, sacred, spiritual

Related Words blessed, consecrated, hallowed, holy, sacrosanct, sanctified; liturgical, ritual, sacramental

Near Antonyms earthly, mundane, worldly; irreligious, semireligious

Antonyms nonreligious, profane, secular

2 showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue <a deeply religious woman who eventually decided to quit her job and to become a nun> — see holy 1