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Defenition of the word formal

    • Defenition of the word formal

      • Being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements.
      • (Of spoken and written language) Adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms.
      • Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority.
      • (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form
      • refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
      • 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"
      • (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"
      • logically deductive; "formal proof"
      • characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
      • 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"
      • represented in simplified or symbolic form
      • a gown for evening wear
      • a lavish dance requiring formal attire
      • refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
      • being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
      • (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
      • logically deductive
      • characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

    Synonyms for the word formal

      • ceremonial
      • conventional
      • correct
      • courtly
      • decorous
      • elegant
      • official
      • prescribed
      • prim
      • prim and proper
      • proper
      • recognized
      • reserved
      • schematic
      • smart
      • starched
      • stately
      • stiff
      • strict

    Similar words in the formal

      • black-tie
      • buckram
      • ceremonial
      • ceremonious
      • conventional
      • dignified
      • dress
      • form-only
      • form-only(a)
      • formal
      • formaldehyde
      • formaldehyde's
      • formalism
      • formalism's
      • formalities
      • formality
      • formality's
      • formalization
      • formalization's
      • formalize
      • formalized
      • formalizes
      • formalizing
      • formals
      • full-dress
      • literary
      • logical
      • nominal
      • nonrepresentational
      • official
      • perfunctory
      • positive
      • prescribed
      • pro forma
      • rhetorical
      • semi-formal
      • semiformal
      • solemn
      • starchy
      • stiff
      • titular
      • white-tie

    Hyponyms for the word formal

      • cotilion
      • cotillion
      • fancy-dress ball
      • masked ball
      • masquerade ball
      • prom
      • promenade

    Hypernyms for the word formal

      • dance
      • evening clothes
      • evening dress
      • eveningwear
      • formalwear
      • gown

    Antonyms for the word formal

      • informal

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