Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

The word "religious" can be used as adjective, adjective and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

areligious casual irreligious irreligious secular

Coordinate Terms

secular

Derived Terms

aletho-religious alethoreligious anti-religious antireligious areligious criminal religious movement ethico-religious ethicoreligious ethno-religious ethnoreligious hyperreligious hyporeligious inter-religious interreligious intrareligious irreligious magicoreligious medicoreligious military-religious misreligious monoreligious multireligious neoreligious new religious movement non-religious nonreligious overreligious paleoreligious parareligious politicoreligious postreligious prereligious pro-religious proreligious protoreligious pseudo-religious pseudoreligious quasi-religious quasireligious religious education religious freedom religious humanism religious humanist religious institute religious leader religious liberty religious naturalism religious naturalist religious none religious order religious pluralism religious police religious priest religious right religious service religious studies religious toleration religious tourism religiouslike religiously religiousness religiousy scientifico-religious semireligious socioreligious superreligious suprareligious ultrareligious unreligious

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

religious person

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Baháʼí Buddhist Confucianist Druidic Eckist Hindu Jain Jewish LaVeyan Satanist Muslim New Ager Rastafarian Raëlian Scientologist Sikh Taoist Thelemite Unitarian Universalist Wiccan Zoroastrian humanist pagan reconstructionist spiritist

Type Of (IsA)

religionist

Related Terms

aletho-religion alethoreligion anti-religion antireligion antireligiosity areligiosity co-religionist coreligionist hyperreligion hyperreligiosity hyporeligion hyporeligiosity interreligiosity interreligiously irreligion irreligiosity irreligiously irreligiousness metareligion neoreligion nonreligion nonreligiosity nonreligiousness paleoreligion para-religion parareligion post-religion postreligion pre-religion prereligion pro-religion proreligion proreligiosity pseudo-religion pseudoreligion quasi-religion quasireligion quasireligiosity religion religion-specific religionise religionism religionist religionize religionless religiosity subreligion superreligion

Related Terms

irreligiosity irreligious irreligiously irreligiousness pious religion religiosity religious education religious leader religious order religious studies religiously religiousness

Similar Terms

churchgoing churchgoing churchly churchly devout god fearing god-fearing interfaith interfaith pious sacred sacred scrupulous scrupulous

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.