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ritual - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: ritual
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ceremony, tradition
Synonyms: act, ceremonial, communion, convention, custom, form, formality, habit, liturgy, observance, ordinance, practice, prescription, procedure, protocol, red tape*, rite, routine, sacrament, service, solemnity, stereotype, usage
Notes: a rite is an established form of religious or otherwise solemn practice; a ritual is a prescribed form for carrying out the ceremonies associated with such a practice (both from Latin ritus 'ceremony')
Main Entry: baptism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: church rite; initiation
Synonyms: ablution, debut, dedication, introduction, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sprinkling, baptismal, christening, dunking, immersion, launching, lustration, purgation, sanctification
Main Entry: behavior
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: manner of conducting oneself
Synonyms: act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done
Main Entry: exorcism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: expelling evil spirits
Synonyms: ceremony, ejection, expulsion, purification, ritual, casting out
Main Entry: formula
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: set preparation; rule, recipe
Synonyms: blueprint, canon, code, credo, creed, custom, description, direction, equation, form, maxim, method, modus operandi, precept, prescription, principle, procedure, rite, ritual, rote, theorem, way, formulary, rubric, specifications
Main Entry: liturgy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: worship, ceremony
Synonyms: celebration, ceremonial, form, formality, formula, observance, rite, ritual, sacrament, service, services
Main Entry: pageant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spectacle or contest
Synonyms: celebration, charade, display, exhibition, exposition, extravaganza, fair, make-believe, motorcade, parade, pomp, procession, ritual, show, tableau
Main Entry: parade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pageant, display
Synonyms: array, cavalcade, ceremony, column, demonstration, exhibition, fanfare, flaunting, line, march, ostentation, pomp, procession, review, ritual, shine, show, spectacle, train, autocade, panoply, vaunting
Main Entry: pomp
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pageantry, display
Synonyms: affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, fanfare, flourish, formality, grandeur, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, parade, pomposity, ritual, shine, show, solemnity, splendor, state, vainglory, grandiosity, panoply
Antonyms: dullness, simplicity, plainness
Main Entry: religion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief in divinity; system of beliefs
Synonyms: church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, piety, prayer, preference, ritual, sacrifice, sect, spirituality, superstition, theology, veneration, higher power, pietism, religiosity, rites, sanctification, spiritual-mindedness, standards
Antonyms: atheism, disbelief, agnosticism
Main Entry: requiem
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hymn, mass
Synonyms: ceremony, chant, dirge, elegy, eulogy, liturgy, psalm, ritual, sermon, threnody, worship, canticle, death song, funeral hymn, memorial service, monody, religious song
Main Entry: rite
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ceremony, tradition
Synonyms: act, celebration, ceremonial, communion, custom, form, formality, liturgy, observance, occasion, ordinance, practice, procedure, ritual, sacrament, service, solemnity
Main Entry: sacrament
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rite
Synonyms: baptism, celebration, ceremony, communion, confession, confirmation, custom, holy orders, liturgy, marriage, matrimony, oath, observance, practice, ritual, service, vow
Main Entry: tradition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: established practice
Synonyms: attitude, belief, birthright, conclusion, convention, culture, custom, customs, ethics, fable, folklore, form, habit, heritage, idea, inheritance, institution, law, legend, lore, mores, myth, mythology, opinion, practice, praxis, ritual, unwritten law, usage, wisdom, ethic, mythos
Main Entry: worship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: honoring, glorification
Synonyms: adoration, adulation, awe, benediction, chapel, devotion, exaltation, glory, homage, honor, idolatry, invocation, love, offering, praise, prayer, prostration, regard, respect, reverence, rite, ritual, service, supplication, veneration, vespers, beatification, church service, deification, genuflection, idolization, laudation
Main Entry: liturgical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ceremonial
Synonyms: conventional, ritual, ritualistic, solemn
Main Entry: séance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: divination
Synonyms: gathering, meeting, ritual, session
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, normal
Synonyms: accepted, accustomed, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, typical, usual, well-known, wonted, button-down, in established usage, tralatitious
Antonyms: abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unusual, uncustomary
Main Entry: formal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: established, orderly
Synonyms: academic, approved, ceremonial, ceremonious, confirmed, conventional, decorous, directed, explicit, express, fixed, lawful, legal, methodical, official, precise, prescribed, pro forma, proper, punctilious, regular, rigid, ritual, ritualistic, set, solemn, stately, stereotyped, strict, systematic, ceremonialistic, formalistic, stereotypical
Antonyms: disorderly, informal, relaxed
Main Entry: formality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: convention, custom
Synonyms: ceremony, form, gesture, liturgy, procedure, red tape*, rite, ritual, rule, service, solemnity, stereotype, tradition, academism, convenance, conventionality, matter of form, officialism, rituality, rubric, solemnness
Antonyms: informality
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