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Quick definitions from WordNet (formal)
▸ adjective: logically deductive ("Formal proof")
▸ adjective: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority ("Formal duties")
▸ adjective: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) ("Pay one's formal respects")
▸ adjective: (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")
▸ adjective: represented in simplified or symbolic form
▸ adjective: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
▸ Also see formals
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to formal
▸ Usage examples for formal
▸ Popular nouns described by formal
▸ Words that often appear near formal
▸ Rhymes of formal
▸ Invented words related to formal
▸ adjective: logically deductive ("Formal proof")
▸ adjective: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority ("Formal duties")
▸ adjective: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) ("Pay one's formal respects")
▸ adjective: (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")
▸ adjective: represented in simplified or symbolic form
▸ adjective: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
▸ Also see formals
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to formal
▸ Usage examples for formal
▸ Popular nouns described by formal
▸ Words that often appear near formal
▸ Rhymes of formal
▸ Invented words related to formal