UNCEREMONIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unceremonious mean? 

• UNCEREMONIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective UNCEREMONIOUS has 2 senses:

1. without ceremony or formality

2. without due formalities

  Familiarity information: UNCEREMONIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCEREMONIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without ceremony or formality

Synonyms:

unceremonial; unceremonious

Context example:

an unceremonious speech

Similar:

informal (not formal)

Derivation:

unceremoniousness (an unceremonial manner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without due formalities

Context example:

unceremonious dismissal from office

Similar:

discourteous (showing no courtesy; rude)

 Context examples 

He looked from one to the other of us, and under our gaze of inquiry he became conscious that some apology was needed for this unceremonious entry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now, which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would be something so very unceremonious, so bordering on disrespect for Mrs. Rushworth, whose own manners were such a pattern of good-breeding and attention, that she really did not feel equal to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had emerged by another door, and stood in the street for a little while, as if I really were a stranger upon earth: but the unceremonious pushing and hustling that I received, soon recalled me to myself, and put me in the road back to the hotel; whither I went, revolving the glorious vision all the way; and where, after some porter and oysters, I sat revolving it still, at past one o'clock, with my eyes on the coffee-room fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)