Reverential

Quick meaning: Reverential is an adjective meaning Showing or characterized by reverence; respectful.

Meaning

Showing or characterized by reverence; respectful.

More Meanings

1. Someone or something that is reverential.

Example Sentences

While reverentials wait / The triumph of His cosmic plan, / The Christ reclaims his millions in this martyrdom of man.

The reverential tone intensified as this section progressed. When each spectator had purportedly become her mother, she was invited to share her mother's wisdom, prefaced by the words "I always said."

The verb is not thereby made reflective, but preserves the same signification as if not reverential. The intransitive reverentials are said to be formed from their compulsive form, and the active from their applicative.

The supposed religious tone must be banished, so far as it is applied to the book itself or to the words printed in it; but there is a reverential tone, properly applicable to the meaning conveyed by the words, which should be cultivated.

Word Forms

• reverentials

Synonyms for reverential

Depending on context, synonyms include reverent, venerating, respectful.

Antonyms for reverential

Common opposites include irreverential.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reverent, respectful, venerating, obeisant, worshipful, fearing.

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