Clerical Synonyms and Antonyms

klĕrĭ-kəl
Concerning clerks
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. secretarial
  2. office
  3. filing
  4. administrative
  5. typing
  6. stenographic
  7. accounting
  8. bookkeeping
  9. written
  10. scribal
  11. assistant
  12. on the support staff
  13. white-collar
A person ordained for service in a Christian church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. churchman
  2. churchwoman
  3. clergyman
  4. clergywoman
  5. cleric
  6. clerk
  7. divine
  8. ecclesiastic
  9. minister
  10. parson
  11. preacher
  12. reverend
Concerning the clergy
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ministerial
  2. sacerdotal
  3. priestly
  4. pastoral
  5. apostolic
  6. monastic
  7. theocratic
  8. monkish
  9. hierarchic
  10. rabbinical
  11. churchly
  12. cleric
  13. prelatic
  14. papal
  15. episcopal
  16. canonical
  17. pontifical
  18. ecclesiastic
  19. ordained
  20. of the cloth
  21. sacred
  22. holy
  23. ecclesiastical
  24. parsonic
  25. parsonish
  26. in God's service
  27. doing the Lord's work
Antonyms:
  1. lay
  2. worldly
  3. civilian

Clerical Sentence Examples

  • Until I'm certified, I'll do clerical jobs and help out.

  • I charge him for the office space and clerical help but we operate independently.

  • Plotting was rife at Milan, as also at Bologna, where the memory of old liberties predisposed men to cast off clerical rule and led to the first rising on behalf of Italian liberty in the year 1794.

  • The constitution was modelled on that of the French directory, and, lest there should be a majority of clerical or Jacobinical deputies, the French Republic through its general, Bonaparte, nominated and appointed the first deputies and administrators of the new government.

  • The republics set up by the French at Naples, Rome and Milan collapsed as soon as the French troops retired; and a reaction in favor of clerical and Austrian influence set in with great violence.

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