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Secular vs. Religious

Difference Between Secular and Religious

Secular

Worldly rather than spiritual
the secular affairs of the parish.
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Religious

relating to or believing in a religion
religious music
both men were deeply religious and moralistic
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Secular

Not relating to religion or to a religious body; nonreligious
secular music.
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Religious

a person bound by monastic vows.
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Secular

Not bound by the full monastic rule of a religious order. Used of clergy.
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Religious

Having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity.
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Secular

Relating to or advocating secularism.
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Religious

Of, concerned with, or teaching religion
a religious text.
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Secular

Occurring or observed once in an age or century, as games in ancient Rome.
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Religious

Extremely scrupulous or conscientious
religious devotion to duty.
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Secular

Lasting or persisting for a long time
a secular bear market.
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Religious

A member of a monastic order, especially a nun or monk.
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Secular

(Astronomy) Of or relating to characteristics of astronomical phenomena that change slowly over time.
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Religious

Concerning religion.
It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
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Secular

A member of the secular clergy.
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Religious

Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
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Secular

A layperson.
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Religious

Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
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Secular

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
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Religious

A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
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Secular

Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
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Religious

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
Our law forbids at their religious ritesMy presence.
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Secular

(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
secular clergy in Catholicism
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Religious

Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
Men whose livesReligious titled them the sons of God.
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Secular

Happening once in an age or century.
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
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Religious

Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
Thus, Indianlike,Religious in my error, I adoreThe sun, that looks upon his worshiper.
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Secular

Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
on a secular basis
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Religious

Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
One of them is religious.
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Secular

(literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
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Religious

A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
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Secular

Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
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Religious

a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
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Secular

(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
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Religious

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;
religious texts
a nenber if a religious order
lords temporal and spiritual
spiritual leaders
spiritual songs
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Secular

A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
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Religious

having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity;
a religious man
religious attitude
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Secular

A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
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Religious

extremely scrupulous and conscientious;
religious in observing the rules of health
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Secular

A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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Secular

Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
The secular year was kept but once a century.
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Secular

Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
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Secular

Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
New foes arise,Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
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Secular

Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy.
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Secular

Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
I speak of folk in secular estate.
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Secular

A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
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Secular

A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
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Secular

A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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Secular

concerning those not members of the clergy;
set his collar in laic rather than clerical position
the lay ministry
the choir sings both sacred and secular music
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