Word Meanings - CEREMONIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious

Additional info about word: CEREMONIOUS

1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious phrases." Addison. Too ceremonious and traditional. Shak. Syn. -- Formal; precise; exact. See Formal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CEREMONIOUS)

• Formal
• Regular
• complete
• shapely
• sufficient
• correct
• stately
• dignified
• ceremonious
• pompous
• stiff
• precise
• explicit
• exact
• affected
• methodical
• Pharisaical
• Sanctimonious
• formal
• precision
• Precise
• Definite
• nice
• pointed
• accurate
• particular
• scrupulous
• terse
• punctilious
• Punctilious
• Ceremonious
• excessively nice
• over scrupulous
• Stiff
• Unbending
• inflexible
• rigid
• unyielding
• unpliant
• stroux
• stubborn
• obstinate
• pertinacious
• constrained
• starched
• difficult

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CEREMONIOUS)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to CEREMONIOUS)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• TERSE
  1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants."
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INEXPLICIT
  Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.