pious

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) pius

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pious (not comparable)

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

Usage notes

• Somtimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".

Synonyms

• reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godly

Antonyms

• (of or pertaining to piety): impious, independent, profane

Derived terms

• piously
• piousness

Related terms

• piety

Translations

of or pertaining to piety

• Arabic: صالح (SaaliH), ورع (wári3), متدين (mutadayyin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敬虔 (jìngqián), 虔誠／虔诚 (qiánchéng), 虔诚 (qiánchéng)

• Czech: zbožný
• Dutch: vroom
• Esperanto: pia
• Finnish: hurskas (fi), harras (fi), jumalinen
• French: pieux (fr)
• German: fromm (de)
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• Japanese: 敬虔な (けいけいんな, keiken-na), 信心深い (しんじんぶかい, shinjin-bukai)
• Kurdish: Template:ku-Arab
• Latin: pius (la) m
• Polish: pobożny (pl)
• Russian: набожный (nábožnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic:
• Spanish: piadoso m
• Swedish: from, pietistisk, pietetsfull, andaktsfull, vördsam

practiced under the pretext of religion

• Croatian:
• Finnish: tekopyhä
• Japanese: (phrase) 信心の名を借りた (shinjin no na wo karita), 宗教にかこつけた (shūkyō ni kakotsuketa); (hypocritical) 偽善的な (gizen-teki na)
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• Scottish Gaelic:

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• (deprecated template usage) Malay: khusuk
• (deprecated template usage) Italian: pio
• (deprecated template usage) Old English: hāliġ
• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: piadoso, piadosa
• (deprecated template usage) Yiddish: פרום (frum)