English to English
formal
('f/O/rm/&/l
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adjective (a)
- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)(adj.all)Example:
Pay one's formal respects.
Formal dress.
A formal ball.
The requirement was only formal and often ignored.
A formal education.
source: wordnet30 - (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms(adj.all)Example:
The paper was written in formal English.
source: wordnet30 - Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- a gown for evening wear(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- See Methylal.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority(adj.all)Example:
Formal duties.
source: wordnet30 - represented in simplified or symbolic form(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- logically deductive(adj.all)Example:
Formal proof.
source: wordnet30