Religious
The adjective religious basically has two different meanings that can only be deduced from the context used:
- related to (a concrete) religion - a collective worldview based on belief in certain transcendent forces
- related to religiosity - the individual feeling of a transcendent reality ( not necessarily tied to a religion)
The following terms are often used synonymously, but each have different meanings:
- believing (related to a (religious) belief): see belief
- pious (related to the attitude and way of life that is deeply rooted in a belief or religion): see piety
- godly (related to the reverence of a god): see godly fear
- ecclesiastical (related to the institution of the church): see church (organization)
- Christian (related to Christianity): see Christianity
See also:
Wiktionary: religious - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations