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pious 音標拼音: [p'ɑɪəs] a. 虔誠的 虔誠的 pious adj 1: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; " pious readings" [ ant: { impious}] Pious \ Pi" ous\, a. [ L. pius: cf. F. pieux.] 1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. " Pious hearts." -- Milton. " Pious poetry." -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] Where was the martial brother' s pious care? -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous. [ 1913 Webster] 76 Moby Thesaurus words for " pious": 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
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