pious

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.

Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

religious godly devout righteous reverent reverential holy orthodox god-fearing faithful virtuous observant saintly sanctified dutiful
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Antonyms

impious godless independent crooked bad evil
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Related terms

piety

Phrases with the word

offensive to pious ears pious hope pious wish pious platitudes self-righteously pious pious jew

Anagrams

opius

Examples

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Herbert Spencer

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. José Martí

Loving your country is pious. Arabic Proverb

Whores and thieves are always very pious. French Proverb

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

piotine Piotrowski Piotta pious city pious fiction pious fraud