ceremonious

Meaning

1. According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), to ceremonial laws in the Bible.
2. Involving much ceremony; ostentatious, showy.
3. Of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious.
4. Synonym of ceremonial (“of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony or rite”); formal, ritual.

Synonyms

formal

ceremonial

conventional

solemn

festive

pompous

stiff

punctilious

official

meticulous

ministerial

modal

notable

perfunctory

priggish

prim

procedural

ritual

sedate

set

snobbish

starched

starchy

strict

typical

form-only

arrogant

make official

authoritative

decorous

formalised

formalistic

formalize

grand

haughty

imperious

Translations

ceremonioso

solennel

plechtig

statig

plechtstatig

ceremonial

feierlich

cérémonieux

solemne

solene

cerimonioso

cerimoniale

zeremoniös

resmi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle French cérémonieux (modern French cérémonieux) or directly from its etymon Latin caerimōniōsus + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Caerimōniōsus is derived from Latin caerimōnia (“awe, reverence, veneration; sacredness, sanctity; religious ceremony, ritual”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to build, make; to do”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly’ forming adjectives from nouns). By surface analysis, ceremony + -ous.