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Hasidic

Hasidic

15 9.4
A person or community of Jews who follow strict religious rules
  • adjective
  • /həˈsɪdɪk/
: jasídico
  • She was raised in a Hasidic community that values strong family ties and religious observance.
  • Hasidic Jews
  • Hasidic community
  • Hasidic man

The ultra Orthodox and Hasidic Jews stayed behind.

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Examples

  • Twenty-three thousand of the town's ninety-four thousand residents are Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The area set aside for accelerated development also happened to be located almost entirely within the Hasidic section of Williamsburg.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The women l like best are the Hasidic women.

  • Our Hasidic partners went with us because they know good business.

  • But OK, she thinks that we're Hasidic Jews based on what we're wearing.

  • With two Hasidic Jews on either side of you.

  • I'm shooting the summer project there, in the Hasidic district.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And I'm holding hands, dancing around in a circle, singing songs with a bunch of Hasidic Jews.

  • We know that all Jews are not the same: Hasidic, Orthodox, Reformed.

    Blog text (17)
  • In the eighteenth century, a bitter split developed between Rabbinic and Hasidic Judaism in Eastern Europe.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

Hassidic
vsHasidic
2 9.9

Of a Jewish group that follows traditional practices and strong religious beliefs

has identical meaning but differs in spelling only
Chasidic
vsHasidic
1 9.6

Relating to a Jewish group called Hasidim and their religious customs

has identical meaning but is a different written form
Chassidic
vsHasidic
1 9.3

Relating to a Jewish religious group called the Hasidim

has identical meaning but represents a variant spelling

Surface Forms

Hasidic positive

Morphology

Hasidic = Hasid (transparent) = Hasid + ic

Formed by the productive adjectival suffix '-ic' on 'Hasid', meaning 'relating to Hasid(s)', so the relation to the base is direct.

Etymology

Hasidic comes from the Hebrew word Hasid meaning 'pious' or 'devout' and passed into English through Yiddish as the name for the followers of the Hasidic movement. So Hasidic describes things that belong to that group, their beliefs, or their way of life.