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Adjective: formal formal- Being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
"pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" - Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
"formal duties" - (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
"the paper was written in formal English" - Represented in simplified or symbolic form
- conventional, schematic - Logically deductive
"formal proof" - Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- courtly, stately
Noun: formal formal- A lavish dance requiring formal attire
- ball - A gown for evening wear
- dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown
Derived forms: formals See also: black-tie, buckram, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, dignified, dress, formality, formally, formalness, form-only, full-dress, literary, logical, nominal, nonrepresentational, official, perfunctory, positive, prescribed, pro forma, rhetorical, semiformal, semi-formal, starchy, stiff, titular, white-tie Type of: dance, evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear, gown Antonym: informal Encyclopedia: Formal |