Synonyms for cult
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1. cultnoun

   followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

   Synonyms:
   furore, fad, rage, cultus, furor, religious cult, craze

2. fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, ragenoun

   an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

   "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"

   Synonyms:
   fury, frenzy, rage, furore, madness, craze, fad, delirium, passion, hysteria, religious cult, furor, cultus

3. cultnoun

   followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader

   Synonyms:
   furore, fad, rage, cultus, furor, religious cult, craze

4. cultnoun

   a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false

   "it was a satanic cult"

   Synonyms:
   furore, fad, rage, cultus, furor, religious cult, craze

5. cult, cultus, religious cultnoun

   a system of religious beliefs and rituals

   "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin"

   Synonyms:
   cultus, rage, furore, craze, fad, religious cult, furor

Matched Categories

1. • Fashion
   • Religion

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cultnoun

   Synonyms:
   homage, worship

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cult":

   cults, worship, anti-cult, sect, heresy, heretic, sectarian, religion

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1. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   It shows the lure, the lure of this death cult to impressionable youngsters and it's very, very important that we do everything we can to try to safeguard our young people against the lure of this shocking, alien and extreme ideology.

2. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   There is no room for accommodating an apocalyptic cult like ISIL and the United States makes no apology for using our military as part of a broad coalition to go after it, realism dictates that compromise will be required to end the fighting and ultimately stamp out ISIL.

3. Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   ... Kneeling before the death cult flag with a knife in his hand and a machete before him one of those arrested said this: 'I swear to almighty Allah, we will carry out the first implementation for the soldiers of the caliphate in Australia', he went on to say ... 'I swear to almighty Allah, blond people, there is no room for blame between you and us. We only are ... stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks’.

4. Tony Abbott:

   We believe that the potential attack was inspired by the Daesh death cult in the Middle East.

5. Vladan Kuzmanović:

   Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque).