evangelical

1. 1.

   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”
2. 2.

   of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
3. 3.

   marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause

   Synonymsevangelistic

   Similarenthusiastic

Questions about evangelical

What does evangelical mean?

evangelical means "relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evangelical?

evangelical has 5 syllables: e-van-gel-i-cal. The stress falls on "gel". In IPA it is /ˌivænˈdʒɛlɪkəl/.

What is another word for evangelical?

Close synonyms include evangelistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is evangelical a common word?

evangelical is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.