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formal

/'fɔrmæl/

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noun
a lavish dance requiring formal attire
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ball

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dance
adjective
represented in simplified or symbolic form
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conventional schematic nonrepresentational
noun
a gown for evening wear
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dinner dress dinner gown evening gown

type of:
gown formalwear evening clothes evening dress eveningwear
adjective
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
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courtly stately dignified
adjective
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
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"pay one's formal respects" "formal dress" "a formal ball" "the requirement was only formal and often ignored" "a formal education"

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semi-formal starchy perfunctory positive prescribed pro forma semiformal black-tie buckram ceremonial ceremonious conventional white-tie dress form-only titular full-dress stiff nominal

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informal
adjective
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
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"formal duties"

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official
adjective
logically deductive
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"formal proof"

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logical
adjective
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
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"the paper was written in formal English"

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literary

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informal

Examples of formal

"pay one's formal respects"
"formal dress"
"a formal ball"
"the requirement was only formal and often ignored"
"a formal education"
"formal duties"
"formal proof"
"the paper was written in formal English"