A Topical Dictionary: Search for Pious

Dictionary Results For "Pious" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From Latin pius

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈpaɪəs/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-pious.ogg

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪəs|-aɪəs

Adjective

Of or pertaining to piety, devout, exhibiting piety.
Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety.
* pious errors; pious frauds.

Synonyms

Antonyms

impious, profane

Derived terms

Related terms

piety

Translations

Finnish: hurskas, harras, jumalinen
Japanese: {{t|ja|敬虔な|tr=keiken na|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|信心深い|tr=shinjin-bukai|sc=Jpan}}

Kurdish:

Finnish:
Japanese: {{t|ja|信心の名を借りた|tr=shinjin no na wo karita|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|宗教にかこつけた|tr=shūkyō ni kakotsuketa|sc=Jpan}}; {{t|ja|偽善的な|tr=gizen-teki na|sc=Jpan}}

: khusuk
: pieux
: fromm
: pio
: halig|hāliġ
: piadoso, piadosa
: from
: פרום (frum)

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pious \Pi"ous\, a. [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.]
1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential;
dutiful; religious; devout; godly. "Pious hearts."
--Milton. "Pious poetry." --Johnson.
[1913 Webster]

Where was the martial brother's pious care? --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by
mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet pious
adj 1: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity;
"pious readings" [ant: impious]
2: devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people"
H.L.Mencken [syn: devout, god-fearing]

Moby Dictionary
Christian , Christianlike , Christianly , God-fearing , Tartuffian ,
Tartuffish , adoring , affected , angelic , assured , believing ,
canting , certain , confident , convinced , cultish , cultist ,
cultistic , dedicated , devoted , devout , dogmatic , doubtless ,
dutiful , faithful , false , fideistic , fraudulent , godlike , godly ,
good , goody , goody-goody , holier-than-thou , holy , hypocritical ,
impressed with , insincere , mealy-mouthed , mealymouthed , moral ,
oily , persuaded , pharisaic , pietistic , pistic , positive , prayerful ,
pretended , priestly , religious , reverent , reverential ,
right-minded , saintly , sanctified , sanctimonious , satisfied ,
secure , self-righteous , seraphic , smarmy , sniveling , sold on ,
solemn , spiritual , sure , theistic , unctuous , under the impression ,
undoubtful , undoubting , venerational , venerative , virtuous ,
worshipful