Difference between Reverent and Pious

REVERENT vs PIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
Devoutly religious
Earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; reverent or devout.
Expressive of or used in religious devotion; devotional.
Done for the benefit of others or with the intention of encouraging good.
Sincere but wishful or far-fetched.
Self-righteous or sanctimonious.
Professing or exhibiting traditional morality; dutiful.
Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety
Showing or characterized by religious devotion.

Feeling or displaying reverence; impressed with veneration or deep respect; standing in awe with admiration, as before superior age, worth, capacity, power, or achievement.
Proceeding from or characteristic of reverence; expressive of veneration or profound respect and awe: as, reverent conduct; a reverent attitude toward religious questions.
Reverend.
Strong; undiluted: noting liquors.

Religious, holy, righteous, saintly. See religion.
Practised under the pretense of religion or for a good end: as, pious frauds.
Dictated by reverence for God; proceeding from piety: said of things: as, pious awe; pious services; pious sorrow.
Having faith in and reverence for the Supreme Being; actuated by faith in and reverence for God; godly; devout: said of persons.
Having or exhibiting due respect and affection for parents or others to whom respect and affection are due; also, pertaining to or consisting in the duties of respect and affection toward parents or others.

Devout, Affectionate, Thoughtful, Solemn, Prayerful, Contemplative, Awful, Awed, Venerating, Adoring, Godly, Pious, Respectful, Worshipful, Reverential

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Devout, Affectionate, Thoughtful, Solemn, Prayerful, Contemplative, Awful, Awed, Venerating, Adoring, Godly, Pious, Respectful, Worshipful, Reverential

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Apart from their dramatic and reverent display, nothing happened.
Piety will make us more prayerful, reverent, and holy.
Atmospheric Earnest Gentle Plaintive Poignant Reflective Reverent Spiritual Wintry.
Everything about the way he touched her was reverent.
He is at all time respectful, cautious, and reverent.
So I come across as this reverent curmudgeon.
Prayer should be personal, authentic, reverent and fresh.
The SSPX Mass is very beautiful and reverent.
My wardrobe lends itself to less reverent occasions.
Scout Is Reverent: Being reverent at camp is a unique duty.

The qadis were usually pious specialists in Islam.
It was miri land of which the State revenues were dedicated to pious uses or the usufruct of which was dedicated to pious foundations.
One IFI targets the moderately pious consumer segment while the other targets the highly pious segment.
Joseph of Arimathea was likely a pious Jewish leader who was acting as a pious Jew in the burial of Christ.
Eventually he comes to the conclusion that what makes pious things pious is the fact that all the gods love it.
Charles was well educated and knew many languages, was just, pious and godfearing, loving the pious and hating evil.
If they were not pious and were embroiled in bad practices how could they seek pious wives?
Mahmood discusses how pious women acquire their identity of being pious by appropriating socially authorized forms of performativity.
We are to be pious, then, as pious as children, but not ignorant.
Baykal went on to say that the prime minister discriminates between pious and non-pious people.