worshipful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: wor=ship=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

worshipful, a. 

 Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"[She is] so dear and worshipful."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

worshipful, adj.
1 (usu. Worshipful) Brit. a title given to justices of the peace and to certain old companies or their officers etc.
2 archaic entitled to honour or respect.
3 archaic imbued with a spirit of veneration.

Derivative

worshipfully adv. worshipfulness n.

THESAURUS

worshipful

Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, acknowledged, admiring, admitted, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, august, awe-inspiring, awed, awesome, awestricken, awestruck, awful, believing, conventional, creditable, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary, deifying, devoted, devotional, devout, dreadful, dutiful, established, esteemed, estimable, faithful, fixed, folk, hallowed, handed down, held in esteem, hero-worshiping, heroic, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, hoary, honorable, honored, idolatrous, idolizing, immemorial, imploring, in awe, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, in the dust, inveterate, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meritorious, mythological, noble, of long standing, of the folk, on bended knee, oral, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prescriptive, prestigious, prostrate before, received, recognized, religious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, reverent, reverential, rooted, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, theistic, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, venerated, venerational, venerative, well-thought-of, worshiping, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

worshipful

Repute

N repute, distinction, mark, name, figure, repute, reputation, good repute, high repute, note, notability, notoriety, eclat, the bubble reputation, vogue, celebrity, fame, famousness, renown, popularity, aura popularis, approbation, credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town, name to conjure with, glory, honor, luster, illustriousness, account, regard, respect, reputableness, respectability, good name, good report, fair name, dignity, stateliness, solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility, majesty, sublimity, rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status, position, position in society, order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition, greatness, eminence, height, importance, preeminence, supereminence, high mightiness, primacy, top of the ladder, top of the tree, elevation, ascent, superaltation, exaltation, dignification, aggrandizement, dedication, consecration, enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification, hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody, classman, man of rank, pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community, chief, first fiddle, cynosure, mirror, flower, pink, pearl, paragon, choice and master spirits of the age, elite, star, sun, constellation, galaxy, ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus, halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors, laurels, memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame, immortality, immortal name, magni nominis umbra, distinguished, distingue, noted, of note, honored, popular, fashionable, in good odor in, favor, in high favor, reputable, respectable, creditable, remarkable, notable, notorious, celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of, famous, famed, far-famed, conspicuous, to the front, foremost, in the front rank, in the ascendant, imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius, time honored, illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant, bright, full-blown, honorific, eminent, prominent, high, in the zenith, at the head of, at the top of the tree, peerless, of the first water, superior, supereminent, preeminent, great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely, imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven- born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche, sacrosanct, Int, hail!, all hail!, ave!, viva!, vive!, long life to!, banzai!, glory be to, honor be to?, one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever, sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus, not to know him argues oneself unknown, none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat, above all Greek above all Roman fame, cineri gloria sera est, great is the glory for the strife is hard, honor virtutis praemium, immensum gloria calcar habet, the glory dies not and the grief is past, vivit post funera virtus.