| Main Entry: | clerical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secretarial |
Synonyms: |
accounting, bookkeeping, clerkish, clerkly, office, pink collar, scribal, stenographic, subordinate, typing, white collar, written |
| Main Entry: | clerical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning clergy |
Synonyms: |
apostolic, canonical, churchly, cleric, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, holy, ministerial, monastic, monkish, papal, parsonical, parsonish, pastoral, pontifical, prelatic, priestly, rabbinical, sacerdotal, sacred, theocratical |
| Main Entry: | ecclesiastical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | churchly |
Synonyms: |
clerical, diaconal, episcopal, holy, ministerial, orthodox, parochial, pastoral, religious, sectarian, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | minister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge of church |
Synonyms: |
abbot, archbishop, archdeacon, bishop, chaplain, clergy, clergyperson, cleric, clerical, clerk, confessor, curate, deacon, dean, diocesan, divine, ecclesiastic, lecturer, missionary, monk, parson, pastor, preacher, prelate, priest, pulpiteer, rector, reverend, shepherd, vicar |
| Notes: | a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader |
| Main Entry: | pious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dedicated, religious |
Synonyms: |
born-again, clerical, devoted, devout, divine, ecclesiastical, godly, goody-goody, orthodox, prayerful, priestly, reverent, righteous, sacred, saintly, sanctimonious, spiritual |
Antonyms: |
atheist, impious, irreligious, sinful, wicked |
| Main Entry: | preacher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who gives religious instruction |
Synonyms: |
clergy, cleric, clerical, divine, ecclesiastic, evangelist, evangelizer, minister, missionary, parson, pulpiter, reverend, revivalist, sermonizer |
| Main Entry: | religious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning belief in divinity |
Synonyms: |
believing, born-again, canonical, churchgoing, churchly, clerical, deistic, devotional, devout, divine, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pietistic, pious, pontifical, prayerful, priestly, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theistic, theological |
Antonyms: |
agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly |
| Main Entry: | white-collar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | non-manual |
Synonyms: |
clerical, executive, office, professional, salaried |
| Main Entry: | ministerial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | priestly |
Synonyms: |
canonical, clergy, clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, holy, pastoral, religious |
| Main Entry: | ministry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the clergy |
Synonyms: |
clergy, clergymen, clericals, clerics, ecclesiastics, prelacy, priesthood, the cloth, the pulpit, vicarage |