devout

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.

Adjective

  1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
    • a devout man, and one that feared God - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:
    • We must be constant and devout in the worship of our God. - a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
    • I first became aware of changing Hui-Han social dynamics in the village from a discussion with one of the Han villagers in Team 1. She explained: “Since 1979, we have had less and less social contact with the Hui in the...

    Synonyms: devoutful godfearing heavenly-minded

  2. Expressing devotion or piety.
    • devout sighs; devout eyes; a devout posture
  3. Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
    • devout wishes for one's welfare

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Ecclesiastical Latin dē Ecclesiastical Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti Proto-Italic *wogʷeō Ecclesiastical Latin voveō Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Ecclesiastical Latin -tus Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor. Old French devotbor. Middle English devout English devout Inherited from Middle English devout. From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote.

Forms

devouter more devout devoutest most devout

Synonyms

Allah-fearing devout devoutful frum godfearing heavenly-minded inward godly observant pious piteous practicing religionary sainted sanctimonious

Antonyms

impious indevout inobservant lapsed nonobservant nonpracticing unobservant unobserving undevout ungodly unpious

Hypernyms

religious virtuous

Hyponyms

churchy crawthumping holier-than-thou overpious parsonish pietistic superpious ultrapious

Related

prayerful reverential

Derived

devoutful devoutless devoutly devoutness indevout undevout

Noun

  1. A devotee.
  2. A devotional composition, or part of a composition; a devotion.

Forms

devouts