What is another word for cult?
885 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kˈʌlt], [ kˈʌlt], [ k_ˈʌ_l_t]
Cults may have a negative connotation, but there are many other terms used to describe groups that display similar patterns of behaviour. Some synonyms for cult include sect, faction, movement, community, or group. More specific words can be used as well, such as religious sect, new religion, self-help group, spiritual community, or extremist organization. It's important to note that not all of these groups are harmful or dangerous, and some might simply have a strong sense of shared belief or purpose. Regardless of how they are labelled, it's always important to approach any group with caution and to be aware of warning signs of manipulation or abuse.
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Synonyms for Cult:
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- absolution ,
- angel ,
- angelic ,
- archangel ,
- article of faith ,
- blaspheme ,
- blasphemous ,
- blasphemy ,
- bless ,
- blessing .
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- acclaimed ,
- big ,
- fashionable ,
- hot ,
- much loved/respected/admired/criticized etc. ,
- pop ,
- popular ,
- top-rated ,
- viral ,
- well-received .
- cult .
- fad ,
- furor ,
- furore ,
- rage ,
- religious cult .
Other synonyms:
- Baha'i ,
- Rastaman ,
- animism ,
- ascetic ,
- congregation ,
- coreligionist ,
- denomination ,
- denominational ,
- druid ,
- faith community ,
- hermit ,
- interfaith ,
- megachurch ,
- mendicant ,
- missionary ,
- monk ,
- multifaith ,
- mystic ,
- novice ,
- nun ,
- pagan ,
- parsee ,
- parsi ,
- penitent ,
- priestess ,
- rasta ,
- rastafarian ,
- religion ,
- revivalist ,
- sect ,
- shaman ,
- sister ,
- sisterhood ,
- sr. ,
- taoism ,
- votary ,
- zoroastrianism .
- order .
Other relevant words:
- abide by ,
- abstainer ,
- accumulate ,
- addition ,
- adopt ,
- adult ,
- advance ,
- affectionateness ,
- airy ,
- amass ,
- amplification ,
- anchorite ,
- angel falls ,
- angelical ,
- angriness ,
- appeal ,
- appellation ,
- appellative ,
- appreciation ,
- approval ,
- approving ,
- ardour ,
- arrange ,
- arrive at ,
- ascetical ,
- ask for ,
- asking ,
- association ,
- assume ,
- attain ,
- austere ,
- backer ,
- backpack ,
- bad ,
- bad-tempered ,
- baffle ,
- banding ,
- bang ,
- battalion ,
- be intimate ,
- beatific ,
- bed ,
- beef ,
- beggar ,
- beginner ,
- beloved ,
- belt down ,
- benediction ,
- benefit ,
- berra ,
- bespeak ,
- bighearted ,
- bilk ,
- bitch ,
- blistering ,
- blood brother ,
- blue ,
- boastful ,
- boastfully ,
- bolt down ,
- bonk ,
- boon ,
- boot ,
- bounteous ,
- bountiful ,
- braggart ,
- bragging ,
- braggy ,
- bring in ,
- buddy ,
- bug out ,
- bulge ,
- bulge out ,
- bundle ,
- butterfly ,
- cabal ,
- cacoethes ,
- call for ,
- calvinistic ,
- calvinistical ,
- camarilla ,
- camp ,
- carry ,
- ceremonial ,
- ceremonial occasion ,
- chapelgoer ,
- charge ,
- chase ,
- chat up ,
- cherubic ,
- choler ,
- christ ,
- chum ,
- church building ,
- church doctrine ,
- church service ,
- churchman ,
- circle ,
- civilise ,
- civilize ,
- clear ,
- club ,
- cock-a-hoop ,
- collapse ,
- come out ,
- compact ,
- company ,
- compile ,
- complain ,
- complaisance ,
- compliance ,
- compliancy ,
- comrade ,
- concubine ,
- congregating ,
- conical buoy ,
- conjuration ,
- conjuring ,
- conjury ,
- connectedness ,
- connecter ,
- connective ,
- connector ,
- connexion ,
- consecrate ,
- consistence ,
- consistency ,
- conviction ,
- coquet ,
- coquette ,
- coterie ,
- course ,
- court ,
- courtesan ,
- cover ,
- coveted ,
- crabbed ,
- crabby ,
- craziness ,
- credendum ,
- crisscross ,
- crony ,
- crop up ,
- crossbreed ,
- crossbreeding ,
- crossing ,
- crowing ,
- crown of thorns ,
- cultivate ,
- curse ,
- curve ,
- cuss ,
- cut ,
- cut across ,
- cut through ,
- dad ,
- dada ,
- daddy ,
- dally ,
- dance band ,
- dance orchestra ,
- daoism ,
- dead body ,
- dear ,
- dearest ,
- decree ,
- democratic ,
- derive ,
- desecration ,
- designation ,
- develop ,
- devotedness ,
- dictate ,
- divine ,
- do drugs ,
- do it ,
- doctrine ,
- dose ,
- down ,
- drift ,
- drink down ,
- earn ,
- ecclesiastic ,
- edict ,
- educate ,
- eff ,
- elan ,
- elder ,
- enceinte ,
- enjoin ,
- enjoy ,
- entreaty ,
- envision ,
- erinyes ,
- erotic love ,
- esteem ,
- ethnic ,
- eucharist ,
- eumenides ,
- evangel ,
- evangelist ,
- evolve ,
- expectant ,
- face pack ,
- faithful ,
- fantasy ,
- fear ,
- feel ,
- ferocity ,
- fervency ,
- fervidness ,
- fervor ,
- fervour ,
- festivity ,
- fetich ,
- fetish ,
- fiat ,
- fierceness ,
- figure ,
- fire ,
- flavor ,
- flavour ,
- flirt ,
- flush ,
- foil ,
- fold ,
- followers ,
- folly ,
- fondness ,
- foolishness ,
- forge ,
- freehanded ,
- friar ,
- frustrate ,
- fuck ,
- full-grown ,
- fully grown ,
- fumigate ,
- fundamentalistic ,
- furiousness ,
- fussy ,
- gain ground ,
- gang ,
- garden angelica ,
- garner ,
- gather ,
- gather up ,
- gentile ,
- get ,
- get across ,
- get ahead ,
- get it on ,
- get laid ,
- get over ,
- gild ,
- give up ,
- giving ,
- go for ,
- gospel singing ,
- gospel truth ,
- gospeler ,
- gospeller ,
- gospels ,
- govern ,
- grace ,
- grade ,
- gravid ,
- great ,
- gripe ,
- grouchy ,
- grow ,
- grown ,
- grownup ,
- grumpy ,
- guild ,
- hallow ,
- handsome ,
- have a go at it ,
- have intercourse ,
- have it away ,
- have it off ,
- have sex ,
- heart ,
- heat ,
- heathen ,
- heathenish ,
- heavy ,
- hedonist ,
- hero-worship ,
- hindi ,
- hindoo ,
- hindustani ,
- hoard ,
- holy communion ,
- holy man ,
- holy order ,
- holy person ,
- holy sacrament ,
- honey ,
- honor ,
- honour ,
- hoodoo ,
- hump ,
- hybrid ,
- hybridisation ,
- hybridise ,
- hybridization ,
- hybridize ,
- hybridizing ,
- hydrophobia ,
- hysterical neurosis ,
- idol worship ,
- idolisation ,
- idolise ,
- idolize ,
- ill-tempered ,
- illusion ,
- illusionist ,
- image ,
- impractical ,
- imprecate ,
- impression ,
- in demand ,
- in fashion ,
- increase ,
- infidel ,
- ingroup ,
- initiate ,
- inner circle ,
- insaneness ,
- interbreed ,
- interbreeding ,
- intersect ,
- intervention ,
- intuitive feeling ,
- ira ,
- ire ,
- isthmus ,
- jam ,
- jazz ,
- joining ,
- jubilation ,
- juju ,
- junto ,
- kick back ,
- kicking ,
- kill ,
- kin ,
- kin group ,
- kindred ,
- kinship group ,
- know ,
- kvetch ,
- large ,
- large number ,
- larn ,
- latin ,
- learn ,
- liberal ,
- lie with ,
- link ,
- live ,
- load down ,
- lodge ,
- look ,
- lord's supper ,
- lot ,
- love affair ,
- love life ,
- love story ,
- lovemaking ,
- lunacy ,
- lyssa ,
- madden ,
- magnanimous ,
- make ,
- make headway ,
- make love ,
- make out ,
- making love ,
- manduction ,
- manic disorder ,
- manner ,
- mark ,
- martyrise ,
- martyrize ,
- mash ,
- mazdaism ,
- miss ,
- missional ,
- missioner ,
- mob ,
- mode ,
- monastic ,
- monastic order ,
- movement ,
- multitude ,
- mysterious ,
- mystical ,
- next ,
- nonconforming ,
- notion ,
- novitiate ,
- nun buoy ,
- obedience ,
- obligingness ,
- observance ,
- observe ,
- occult ,
- older ,
- openhanded ,
- opinion ,
- ordain ,
- order of magnitude ,
- ordering ,
- orderliness ,
- ordinate ,
- ordination ,
- organic structure ,
- orphic ,
- pa ,
- pair of virginals ,
- pal ,
- papa ,
- papistic ,
- papistical ,
- pappa ,
- paramour ,
- parliamentary law ,
- parliamentary procedure ,
- partiality ,
- pass over ,
- passionateness ,
- personify ,
- phantasy ,
- philander ,
- philosophical system ,
- philosophy ,
- pick up ,
- picture ,
- pile ,
- pile up ,
- place ,
- plain ,
- plea ,
- pleasure seeker ,
- plurality ,
- political orientation ,
- political party ,
- political theory ,
- pop music ,
- pop out ,
- pop up ,
- popish ,
- popping ,
- postulation ,
- pour down ,
- prescribe ,
- priest-doctor ,
- prise ,
- prize ,
- produce ,
- profanation ,
- profane ,
- profit ,
- project ,
- prominent ,
- protrude ,
- prude ,
- pull ahead ,
- pull in ,
- pull together ,
- purchase order ,
- pure ,
- pursuit ,
- put ,
- put on ,
- queer ,
- quest ,
- quetch ,
- r.c. ,
- rabies ,
- raging ,
- ramp ,
- range ,
- rank ,
- rate ,
- reach ,
- realise ,
- realize ,
- reborn ,
- recluse ,
- recoil ,
- recusant ,
- red-hot ,
- reek ,
- regard ,
- regnant ,
- regularise ,
- regularize ,
- regulate ,
- reigning ,
- religious doctrine ,
- religious mystic ,
- religious order ,
- religious rite ,
- religious sect ,
- remission ,
- remission of sin ,
- remittal ,
- repentant ,
- rescript ,
- respectfulness ,
- resurgence ,
- revere ,
- revitalisation ,
- revitalization ,
- revival meeting ,
- revivification ,
- ring ,
- roll in the hay ,
- roll up ,
- roman ,
- roman catholic ,
- romance language ,
- romanist ,
- romanticism ,
- romish ,
- rules of order ,
- rush ,
- sacrilege ,
- sacrilegious ,
- saint ,
- sainted ,
- saintlike ,
- saintly ,
- sanctify ,
- say ,
- school day ,
- schoolhouse ,
- schooling ,
- schooltime ,
- scotch ,
- screw ,
- secret ,
- see ,
- see red ,
- seer ,
- self-aggrandising ,
- self-aggrandizing ,
- sentiment ,
- seraphic ,
- set ,
- set up ,
- sexual love ,
- sharing ,
- sheer ,
- shoal ,
- sidekick ,
- sign ,
- sis ,
- sistership ,
- sleep together ,
- sleep with ,
- slew ,
- slue ,
- smell ,
- smoke ,
- social club ,
- society ,
- soda ,
- soda pop ,
- soda water ,
- solemnisation ,
- solicit ,
- solitary ,
- solitudinarian ,
- sought-after ,
- sound off ,
- soundbox ,
- span ,
- spartan ,
- spicy ,
- spirit ,
- spoil ,
- squawk ,
- start ,
- storm ,
- stria ,
- striation ,
- stripe ,
- strong belief ,
- style ,
- stylish ,
- suasion ,
- substance ,
- suffer ,
- sufferer ,
- sunni islam ,
- sunnite ,
- supplicant ,
- swear ,
- sweep ,
- sweet ,
- swelled ,
- swerve ,
- symbolisation ,
- symbolization ,
- tactile sensation ,
- tactual sensation ,
- take ,
- take in ,
- take on ,
- take to ,
- tamp ,
- tamp down ,
- tell ,
- tendency ,
- tenderness ,
- tenet ,
- thanksgiving ,
- thought ,
- thrill ,
- throng ,
- thwart ,
- thwartwise ,
- tiro ,
- tone ,
- tonic ,
- torso ,
- toss off ,
- touch ,
- touch sensation ,
- track ,
- train ,
- transversal ,
- transverse ,
- traverse ,
- tribe ,
- troglodyte ,
- trunk ,
- trust ,
- turn a loss ,
- tyro ,
- unconformist ,
- undermentioned ,
- unsuitable ,
- unwanted ,
- vainglorious ,
- value ,
- vauntingly ,
- veer ,
- vehemence ,
- venerate ,
- vestal ,
- view ,
- violence ,
- virgin ,
- virtuous ,
- visualise ,
- visualize ,
- wad ,
- warmheartedness ,
- warmness ,
- warmth ,
- way ,
- wildness ,
- win ,
- windy ,
- with child ,
- wonder ,
- wonderment ,
- woo ,
- zeal .
- Beadroll ,
- Ceremonialism ,
- Credenda ,
- Cultus ,
- Dulia ,
- Ebenezer ,
- Hyperdulia ,
- Sabbatism ,
- Sacramentalism ,
- Symbolics ,
- admiration ,
- adoration ,
- affection ,
- anger ,
- articles of religion ,
- band ,
- belief ,
- body ,
- camp meeting ,
- catechism ,
- celebration ,
- ceremony ,
- clan ,
- clique ,
- collect ,
- communion ,
- connection ,
- credo ,
- creed ,
- cultism ,
- delirium ,
- doctrinal statement ,
- faction ,
- faddism ,
- fashion ,
- feeling ,
- following ,
- formalism ,
- formulated belief ,
- frenzy ,
- fume ,
- fury ,
- gospel ,
- homage ,
- hysteria ,
- ideology ,
- idolatry ,
- idolization ,
- intercession ,
- invocation ,
- ism ,
- latria ,
- litany ,
- liturgics ,
- liturgiology ,
- liturgy ,
- macumba ,
- madness ,
- mystique ,
- obi ,
- orison ,
- party ,
- passion ,
- paternoster ,
- persuasion ,
- petition ,
- political philosophy ,
- prayer ,
- prostration ,
- request ,
- reverence ,
- revival ,
- rite ,
- ritual ,
- ritualism ,
- rituality ,
- ritualization ,
- rogation ,
- school ,
- solemnization ,
- supplication ,
- symbolism ,
- trend ,
- vigils ,
- virginal ,
- vogue ,
- weltanschauung ,
- world view ,
- worshiping ,
- worshipping ,
- wrath .
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How to use "Cult" in context?
There is no one definition of a "cult" thatEveryone has their own perception of what cults are and what they entail. Generally speaking, cults can be defined as groups or individuals with a strongly-held ideology, which often differs from mainstream values. People who have become involved with cults may feel changed or transformed after joining the group, often experiencing a reduced sense of freedom and a decreased sense of identity. Some cults may engage in practices that are considered harmful or that violate people's rights.
cults can be harmful and disruptive to individuals and society as a whole.
Paraphrases for Cult:
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
anti-cult.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
denomination, sectarian, sectarianism, meetings.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
worship.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Cult:
- chocolate, clade, cheloid, clout, clotted, cellulite, coagulated, cloth, cachalot, chiseled, chalet, coagulate, collide, Caeciliadae, cull out, clothe, chokehold, chiliad, clod, celt, collude, clouded, cladode, coolheaded, Cacalia Lutea, collate, chill out, colette, Cassia Alata, called, clotho, clit, clot, cold, clawed, culotte, collide with, cichlidae, chelated, chelate, call-out, cloud, colt, ciliated, cool it, call out, ciliata, chaldaea, Clyde, call at, chaldea, cycloid, cowled, colloid, causality, colutea, choke hold, ciliate, cheesecloth, coiled, collet, cuckold, casualty, child, childhood, cleat, case load, cool-white, cell death, cuculidae, cloudy, celluloid, clad, caeciliidae, caltha, cichlid, clothed, call it a day, chaldee, ceilidh, cold-eyed.
Hyponym for Cult:
n.
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cognition
faith, religious belief, religion.
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group
faith, organized religion, religion.
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cognition
Meronym for Cult:
n.
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group
cultist.
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group
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