Ceremonious

ceremonious
    adj 1: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
           [syn: {pompous}, {ceremonious}]
    2: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious
       greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: {ceremonious},
       {conventional}]
    

Ceremonious \Cer`e*mo"ni*ous\, a. [Cf. F. c['e]r['e]monieux, L.
   Caerimoniosus.]
   1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial.

   Note: [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]
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               The ceremonious part of His worship. --South.
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   2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms;
      devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful;
      punctilious. "Ceremonious phrases." --Addison.
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            Too ceremonious and traditional.      --Shak.

   Syn: Formal; precise; exact. See {Formal}.
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "ceremonious":
      High-Church, attentive, baptismal, cap in hand, careful,
      ceremonial, chivalric, chivalrous, civil, conventional, correct,
      courteous, courtly, decorous, deferential, dignified, dutiful,
      eucharistic, formal, formular, formulary, gallant, grandiose,
      hieratic, honorific, imposing, impressive, knightly, liturgic,
      liturgistic, majestic, moving, old-fashioned, old-world, paschal,
      polite, pompous, proper, punctilious, regardful, respectful,
      ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacramentarian,
      seemly, solemn, starchy, stately, stiff, striking, stuffy,
      well-mannered