Definitions for pious

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pious pi·ous

Spelling: [pahy-uh s]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ əs/

Pious is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in pious (iopsu).

Definitions for pious

adjective

1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere:
4. of or relating to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular:
5. having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others.

Origin of pious

1595-1605; Latin pius, akin to piāre to propitiate

Examples for pious

And then came the pious climax of Coronation, America, and the Doxology.

She was driven from a pious family; but she had no home, no friend, no helper!

Yet for a pious Muslim believer, the experience of those states was bad to the point of being catastrophic.

Let pious women, especially, take a lesson from this incident.

The latter, it was said, had remained at Lourdes in service with a pious lady.

How can the pious candidate pivot when polls show voters shifting away from religion?

And then, using the language of the pious against them, he declares, “We know that God is on our side.”

The lady raised her eyes in a pious manner, and answered 'Yes.'

There was lot of promiscuity in my family, but everyone was pretending that they were pious and perfect.

But there's more to public touchiness over last week's sketch than just pious indignation.