Word Meanings - SANCTIMONIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SANCTIMONIOUS)
- Hypocritical
- Pharisaical
- sanctimonious
- smug
- smooth
- mealy
- unctuous
- mincing
- Sanctimonious
- formal
- ceremonious
- precision
Related words: (words related to SANCTIMONIOUS)
- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - MEALY
1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug , - SANCTIMONIOUS
1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - CEREMONIOUSLY
In a ceremonious way. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - FORMALIZE
1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal. - FORMAL
1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - MINCER
One who minces. - FORMALLY
In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided - SMOOTHING
fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work. - MINCING
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety. - CEREMONIOUSNESS
The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious. - PRECISION
The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. -- - SMOOTH
Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding, - CEREMONIOUS
1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - UNIFORMAL
Uniform. Herrick. - CIRCUMINCESSION
The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity. - INFORMALLY
In an informal manner.