All doctrinal synonyms

adj doctrinal

• customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
• devout — A devout person has deep religious beliefs.
• die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
• legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
• official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
• pious — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
• proper — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
• punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
• reactionary — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
• received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
• recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
• religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
• right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
• rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
• sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
• sound — The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
• standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• traditionalistic — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
• straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
• true — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
• admitted — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
• in line — (of an internal-combustion engine) having the cylinders ranged side by side in one or more rows along the crankshaft.
• old-line — following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
• well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
• ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
• god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
• godly — conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devout; pious.
• ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
• pure — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
• reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
• righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
• sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
• sacrosanct — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
• saintly — pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint: saintly lives.
• scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
• churchly — appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
• pietistic — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
• prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
• born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
• churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
• deistic — a person who believes in deism.
• priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
• theistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
• apostolic — Apostolic means belonging or relating to a Christian religious leader, especially the Pope.
• acceptable — Acceptable activities and situations are those that most people approve of or consider to be normal.
• accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
• ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
• fixed — fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
• folk — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
• habitual — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.