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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. spiritually reborn or converted;
- Example: "a born-again Christian"
[syn: born-again, converted, reborn]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Convert \Con*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting.] [L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse.] 1. To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] O, which way shall I first convert myself? --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. [1913 Webster] If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. [1913 Webster] No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. [1913 Webster] He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. --Lames v. 20. [1913 Webster] 5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. [1913 Webster] When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. --Cooley. [1913 Webster] 6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. [1913 Webster] 7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. [1913 Webster] 8. To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. --Farrow. Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation. Syn: To change; turn; transmute; appropriate. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

converted \converted\ adj. spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner. Syn: born-again, reborn. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

converted adj 1: spiritually reborn or converted; "a born-again Christian" [syn: born-again, converted, reborn]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "converted": Lethean, absentminded, advanced, altered, ameliorated, amnestic, assimilated, beautified, better, bettered, blocked, born again, changeable, changed, circumcised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, degenerate, developed, deviant, divergent, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, forgetful, forgetting, heedless, improved, inclined to forget, justified, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, naturalized, oblivious, perfected, polished, qualified, reborn, rebuilt, redeemed, refined, reformed, regenerate, regenerated, renewed, repressed, revived, revolutionary, sanctified, saved, spiritually purified, subversive, suppressed, transfigured, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmindful, unmitigated, worse