Formal
noun'fɔrmæl
Adjective
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”
See also:Conventional(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”
See also:Rhetoricalcharacteristic of or befitting a person in authority
“formal duties”
logically deductive
“formal proof”
represented in simplified or symbolic form
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
Similar:CourtlyStately
Noun
a lavish dance requiring formal attire
Similar:BallType of:Dancea gown for evening wear
Type of:GownFormalwearEveningwear
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Similar Words
- Ball
- Conventional
- Schematic
- Courtly
- Stately
- Nonrepresentational
- Dignified
- Semi-formal
- Starchy
- Perfunctory
- Positive
- Prescribed
- Semiformal
- Black-tie
- Buckram