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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') |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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