Pious vs Conscientious - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
Pious is a related term of conscientious.
As adjectives the difference between pious and conscientious
is that pious is of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing while conscientious is thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.pious
English
Adjective
(-)- Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious .
Usage notes
* Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".Synonyms
* reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godlyAntonyms
* (of or pertaining to piety) impious, independent, profaneDerived terms
* piously * piousnessconscientious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.