ritually

1. 1.

   in a ceremonial manner

   “he was ceremonially sworn in as President”

   Synonymsceremonially

Questions about ritually

What does ritually mean?

ritually means "in a ceremonial manner".

How many syllables are in ritually?

ritually has 4 syllables and divides as ri-tu-al-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ritually?

Close synonyms include ceremonially. 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 ritually a common word?

ritually 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.