Used in a Sentence

ceremonious

How to use ceremonious in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ceremonious.

Editorial note

It quacks very muck like a Hash, so after reading this I thought all these solutions a bit ceremonious.

Examples12
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ceremonious gathered in one view.

adjective

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

adjective

rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ceremonious.

adjective

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

adjective

rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

Example sentences

1

It quacks very muck like a Hash, so after reading this I thought all these solutions a bit ceremonious.

2

Much like 80x20, tabs vs spaces ... most of the original intent is lost and what survives is guff meant for ceremonious purposes.

3

My point is rituals are creations of ordinary people, just that they are ceremonious doesn't make them any higher truth.

4

The future of news is small teams running a website with little of the ceremonious structure that defines a newspaper.

5

It puts into perspective the ceremonious folly of making the gold and silver coins legal tender.

6

Saturday afternoon: big ceremonious lunch and study or sleep.

7

The "revolution" in Denmark in 49[1] got us our constitution which kept the king, but removed almost all his power and made him a ceremonious figure head.

8

And it cleaned up the code a fair bit because I basically treat it as an RPC without any of the ceremonious DB lookups at the start of every async method.

9

Not only is it overly verbose and ceremonious compared to untyped languages like Python, but also compared to ML/Haskell, whilst being less expressive and less safe!

10

By making interviews a ceremonious practice where even engineers with years of experience need to spend a month Leetcoding, you severely restrict the talent pool.

11

A big appeal for me with TS is that the inference engine is decent, so doesn't feel too ceremonious, and I can also tap out of the type system at any point and write a bit more gnarly code.

12

Tasked with rewriting the current, proprietary, overly ceremonious, deeply coupled, trillion line leviathan that only runs on a single ancient hardware architecture and has a man page that is not only out of date but is purposely deceptive...would we declare it perfect and go home?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ceremonious in a sentence?

It quacks very muck like a Hash, so after reading this I thought all these solutions a bit ceremonious.

What does ceremonious mean?

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

What part of speech is ceremonious?

ceremonious is commonly used as adjective.