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say it: ri-FAWRMD
reformed is an adjective meaning "of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈfɔɹmd/ — ri-FAWRMD. It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran
“Dutch Reformed theology”
caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one
“a reformed drunkard”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reformed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.