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adj
Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: devout, dutiful, godly, observant, reverent, reverential, Allah-fearing, devoutful, frum, godfearing, heavenly-minded, inward, pious, piteous, practicing, religionary, sainted, sanctimonious
Antonyms: impious, independent, profane
adj
Relating to religion or religious works.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: religious
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: crawthumping, holier-than-thou, self-righteous, patronizing, pompous, smug, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain, affected, effete, fey, recherché, overrefined, pansified, precious, stagy, stilted, theatrical, Woosterian
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: impious
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pīosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Borrowed from Latin pīus (“pious, dutiful, blessed, kind, devout”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“pure”). Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”). More at feal.
Across languages
105 source translations are retained for this English entry.
