Characterized by opposition to or absence of ceremony; marked by lack of formal ritual or elaborate procedures.
Anti- + ceremonious (full of ceremony). Ceremonious comes from Latin 'caerimoniosus.' The addition of anti- creates an opposite meaning. This adjective emphasizes the quality of being without ceremonial formality.
The word 'anticeremonious' captures a paradox: it takes a Latin root meaning 'full of ceremony' and inverts it, showing how English can flip meaning by simply prepending anti-—a linguistic judo move.
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