Pious

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.

Synonyms

 * reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godly

Antonyms

 * impious, profane

Derived terms

 * piously
 * piousness

Related terms

 * piety

Adverbs for Pious
painfully; primly; sedately; priggishly; disgustingly; hypocritically; sincerely; truly; reverently; pharisaically; self-righteously; ostentatiously; suddenly; conveniently; judiciously; astutely; honestly; pretentiously; apparently; manifestly; evidently; strangely; unwontedly; habitually; temperamentally; keenly; remarkably; notably; distinctly; meekly; ardently; fervently; humbly; intensely.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From pius:

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Arabic: صالح, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 敬虔, 虔誠,  虔诚
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Espernato: pia
 * Finnish:, , jumalinen
 * French:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 敬虔, 信心深い
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: набожный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: from, pietistisk, pietetsfull, andaktsfull, vördsam


 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 信心の名を借りた, 宗教にかこつけた;  偽善的な


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * : khusuk
 * : pio
 * : hāliġ
 * : piadoso, piadosa
 * : פרום (frum)