Reverential

Definition: Reverential

Reverential

Adjective

1. Feeling or manifesting veneration.

Date "reverential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Reverential

Synonyms: respectful (adj), venerating (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Respect	Adjective: respecting;Verb: respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential, obsequious, ceremonious, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees; prostrate; (servile).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reverential

English words defined with "reverential": Ave ♦ Overawful. (references)

Etymologies containing "reverential": Overawful. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Religious Urge/the Reverential Life (Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Vol 12) (reference) The Day Christ Was Born: A Reverential Reconstruction. (reference) The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The Religious Urge, the Reverential Life (Notebooks of Paul Brunton) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Reverential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reverential" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	38	55,818

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "reverential": non-reverential.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "reverential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏تبجيلي (honorable, honourable, reverent). (various references)

French		révérenciel. (various references)

German		ehrfürchtig (fearful, religious, reverent), ehrerbietigen. (various references)

Greek		ευλαβικόσ (deferential). (various references)

Hebrew		של יראת כבוד. (various references)

Hungarian		áhítatos (awful, devotional, religious, reverent), tiszteletteljes (deferential, respectful, reverent). (various references)

Italian		reverenziale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		奉戴 (being the recipient of, having a prince for a president, reverential acceptance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうたい (bandage, being the recipient of, carrying out the will of one's lord, dressing, having a prince for a president, reverential acceptance). (various references)

Pig Latin		everentialray

Portuguese		reverencial. (various references)

Romanian		omagial (deferential). (various references)

Spanish		reverencial. (various references)

Swedish		vördnadsfull (respectful, reverent, worshipful). (various references)

Turkish		saygılı (considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, dutiful, fearful, obeisant, pious, regardful, respectful, reverent), saygıdan ileri gelen, saygı ile karışık. (various references)

Ukranian		що викликає повагу, шанобливий (assentaneous, awesome, complacent, deferent, deferential, dutiful, honorific, obeisant, respectful, reverent). (various references)

Vietnamese		tỏ vẻ tôn kính (respecful), tỏ vẻ kính trọng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reverential": reverentially. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reverential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reverencial. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reverential" (pronounced re'vere"nkhul or re'vere"nshul)
6	-er e" n kh u l	deferential, differential, preferential.
5	-e" n kh u l	consequential, credential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, sequential, tangential, torrential.
4	-n kh u l	circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial.
3	-kh u l	bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial.
5	-e" n sh u l	confidential, essential, experiential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, potential, quintessential.
4	-n sh u l	financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial.
3	-sh u l	antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: interleave, irrelevant.
	-2 letters: intervale, retrieval, veratrine.
	-3 letters: elaterin, enervate, entailer, interval, inverter, lateener, levanter, levirate, nearlier, relative, relearnt, relevant, reliever, retailer, retainer, retrieve, revealer, reverent, taverner, traveler, treenail, venerate, venereal, veratrin.
	-4 letters: alerter, alienee, aliener, alterer, arenite, atelier, earlier, elative, elevate, enteral, enterer, eternal, latrine, learier, learner, leavier, leerier, leveret, lineate, livener, naivete, nervate.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-t-v"
	+2 letters: reverentially.
	+3 letters: intervalometer, intervertebral, overcentralize, remuneratively.
	+4 letters: intervalometers, overcentralized, overcentralizes.
	+5 letters: interpretatively, representatively.
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