Dictionary 1. (a.) Reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly\.2. (a.) Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds. Thesaurus Christian Christianlike Christianly God-fearing Tartuffian Tartuffish adoring affected angelic assured believing canting certain confident convinced cultish cultist cultistic dedicated devoted devout dogmatic doubtless dutiful faithful FALSE fideistic fraudulent godlike godly good goody goody-goody holier-than-thou holy hypocritical impressed with insincere mealy-mouthed mealymouthed moral oily persuaded pharisaic pietistic pistic positive prayerful pretended priestly religious reverent reverential right-minded saintly sanctified sanctimonious satisfied secure self-righteous seraphic smarmy sniveling sold on solemn spiritual sure theistic unctuous under the impression undoubtful undoubting venerational venerative virtuous worshipful |