evangelical

evangelical is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 23 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
2. adjective. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
3. adjective. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox.
4. noun. One of evangelical principles.
5. adjective. marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause

   Synonyms: evangelistic

6. adjective. of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
7. adjective. relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels

   "evangelical Christianity"

   "an ultraconservative evangelical message"

Synonyms

evangelistic

Common word forms

evangelicals, evangelically, evangelicality, evangelicalness

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