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formal

/'fɔrmæl/

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noun
a lavish dance requiring formal attire
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ball

type of:
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

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