reverential

US/ˌɹɛvəˈɹɛnʃəl/

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Reverential means full of awe and deep respect. A reverential silence.

It is used of manner rather than belief, so a person can be reverential about anything. A reverential tone about a living politician usually means the writer has stopped thinking.

Definitions of reverential

1adjectivereverentialFull of awe and deep respect.C1
“The reverential hush lasted until somebody's phone went.”

reverential is a quality.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin reverentialis, from reverentia, from revereri, to stand in awe of.

Latin
reverentia — reverence
Medieval Latin
reverentiālis
English, today
reverential

From Medieval Latin reverentiālis, from Latin reverentia (“reverence”) + -ālis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

reverential in the wild

A columbarium (; pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.
Columbarium
True to the matrilineal tradition of the Nair caste, he had a reverential relationship with Thakazhi.
M. G. G. Pillai
Atonaltzin (Nahuatl name), also referred to as Atonal II (Nahuatl reverential form) or Dzawindanda (Mixtec name), was a 15th-century ruler of the Mixtec kingdom of Coixtlahuaca.
Ātōnaltzin
The name of Zaca is probably derived from Nahuatl zacatl, meaning "grass"; -tzin is an honorific or reverential suffix.
Huehue Zaca
I think it lends it a more childish atmosphere." The recordings were described as "delicate and suitably reverential" by The Skinny.
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Related words

the reverentia family

reverence

reverential — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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