CEREMONIOUS


Meaning of CEREMONIOUS in English

■ adjective relating or appropriate to grand formal occasions.

Derivatives

~ly adverb

~ness noun

Origin

C16: from Fr. cérémonieux or late L. caerimoniosus , from L. caerimonia (see ceremony ).

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