Definition of Formal
Adjective: formal for-mul
- 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"
- (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form
- conventional, schematic
- Logically deductive
"formal proof"
- Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
"a formal gentleman";
- courtly, stately
- A lavish dance requiring formal attire
- ball
- A gown for evening wear
- dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown
See also:
formably
formaldehyde
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