consuetudinary

1. 1.

   a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order)

   Synonymsconsuetudinal

   Broadermanual

Other forms of consuetudinary

plural

consuetudinaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about consuetudinary

What does consuetudinary mean?

consuetudinary means "a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order)".

How many syllables are in consuetudinary?

consuetudinary has 6 syllables: con-sue-tu-di-na-ry. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for consuetudinary?

Close synonyms include consuetudinal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is consuetudinary a common word?

consuetudinary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.