Pietistic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pietistic \Pi`e*tis"tic\, Pietistical \Pi`e*tis"tic*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt,
     affectedly or demonstratively religious. --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pietistic
       adj 1: of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement" [syn: {pietistical}]
       2: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening
          sanctimonious smile" [syn: {holier-than-thou}, {pietistical},
           {pharisaic}, {pharisaical}, {sanctimonious}, {self-righteous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pietistic":
     Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, Tartuffian, Tartuffish,
     adoring, affected, assured, believing, canting, certain, confident,
     convinced, cultish, cultist, cultistic, devoted, devout, dogmatic,
     doubtless, dutiful, faithful, false, fideistic, godly, goody,
     goody-goody, holier-than-thou, holy, hypocritical, impressed with,
     insincere, mealymouthed, persuaded, pharisaic, pious, pistic,
     positive, prayerful, religious, reverent, reverential, sanctified,
     sanctimonious, satisfied, secure, self-righteous, sniveling,
     sold on, solemn, sure, theistic, unctuous, under the impression,
     undoubtful, undoubting, venerational, venerative, worshipful