Antonyms for Rite
raɪtrite

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1. rite

   Any religious act, especially a public act, viewed as a means of serving God is called a service; the word commonly includes the entire series of exercises of a single occasion of public worship. A religious service ordained as an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace is called a sacrament. Ceremony is a form expressing reverence, or at least respect; we may speak of religious ceremonies, the ceremonies of polite society, the ceremonies of a coronation, an inauguration, etc. An observance has more than a formal obligation, reaching or approaching a religious sacredness; a stated religious observance, viewed as established by authority, is called an ordinance; viewed as an established custom, it is a rite. The terms sacrament and ordinance, in the religious sense, are often used interchangeably; the ordinance derives its sacredness from the authority that ordained it, while the sacrament possesses a sacredness due to something in itself, even when viewed simply as a representation or memorial. The Lord's Supper is the Scriptural name for the observance commemorating the death of Christ; the word communion is once applied to it (1 Cor. x, 16), but not as a distinctive name; at an early period, however, the name communion was so applied, as denoting the communing of Christians with their Lord, or with one another. The term eucharist describes the Lord's Supper as a thanksgiving service; it is also called by preeminence the sacrament, as the ratifying of a solemn vow of consecration to Christ.

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, communion, eucharist, Lord's Supper, observance, ordinance, sacrament, service, solemnity

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1. rite

   Antonyms:
   inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance, noncelebration, desuetude

   Synonyms:
   form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration

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1. • Custom

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. rite, religious ritenoun

   an established ceremony prescribed by a religion

   "the rite of baptism"

   Synonyms:
   religious rite, rite, ritual

2. ritual, ritenoun

   any customary observance or practice

   Synonyms:
   religious rite, rite, ritual

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1. ritenoun

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, ordinance

How to use Rite in a sentence?

1. Dieter Wolke:

   There're still people out there who think that bullying is a normal rite of passage — you go through and toughen up, etc..

2. Isaiah Thomas:

   I am humbled by every person who told my office of the humiliation and trauma experienced in some of these traffic stops, to many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage -- we pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police.

3. Ginny Ehrlich:

   It's a natural rite of passage for teens to act like adults don't matter. It's just part of the developmental process in many, many cases, so I think it's fair for adults to believe what their teens are telling them, and the reality is that teens are clearly saying, especially younger teens and even 16- to 19-year-olds, their parents absolutely matter.

4. Alexi Pappas:

   To join that tradition felt like a rite of passage and something that I was genuinely curious about, being Greek, it's also one of those traditions that's deeply rooted in my background and I think everyone runs a marathon out of curiosity for what their mind or bodies might be able to do.

5. Fox Business host Cavuto:

   For Fox Business, this is an important rite of passage, i don't want to screw it up.

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