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How to spell religious

Religious is spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-U-S.

What it means: Related to belief in a god or spiritual faith.

In a sentence: Many people go to a religious place to pray on special days. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: religion, religiousness, religiously, religiousness, religiosity. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Religious comes from the Latin word 'religiosus', meaning ‘pious’ or ‘devout’, which itself is related to 'religio', often translated as ‘religion’ or ‘reverence for the gods’. Over time, English shifted the noun 'religion' into the adjective form 'religious' by adding the common describing ending '-ous'.

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