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formal

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"

(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"

logically deductive; "formal proof"

characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"

Synonyms:

• High-Church,
• Latinate,
• accepted,
• acknowledged,
• adjectival,
• admitted,
• adverbial,
• anatomic,
• approved,
• architectonic,
• architectural,
• arranged,
• attributive,
• authorized,
• awkward,
• baccalaureate service,
• baptismal,
• being done,
• bloated,
• bombastic,
• businesslike,
• byname,
• celebration,
• ceremonial,
• ceremonious,
• ceremony,
• chivalric,
• chivalrous,
• cognominal,
• comme il faut,
• commencement,
• conditional,
• confining,
• conformable,
• conjunctive,
• constructional,
• conventional,
• conventionalized,
• convocation,
• copulative,
• correct,
• courtly,
• cramped,
• cumbrous,
• customary,
• de rigueur,
• decent,
• decorous,
• definite,
• demure,
• dignified,
• diminutive,
• distant,
• dress uniform,
• earnest,
• edificial,
• elephantine,
• empty formality,
• epithetic,
• established,
• eucharistic,
• evening dress,
• exact,
• exacting,
• exercise,
• exercises,
• explicit,
• express,
• extrinsic,
• fixed,
• flatulent,
• forced,
• formal dress,
• formalist,
• formalistic,
• formality,
• formalized,
• formational,
• formative,
• formulaic,
• formular,
• formulary,
• frowning,
• full dress,
• function,
• functional,
• gallant,
• gassy,
• glossematic,
• graduation,
• graduation exercises,
• grammatic,
• grandiloquent,
• grave,
• grim,
• grim-faced,
• grim-visaged,
• guinde,
• habitual,
• halting,
• harmonious,
• heavy,
• honorific,
• hypocoristic,
• impersonal,
• in hand,
• in name only,
• inaugural,
• inauguration,
• inflated,
• inflexible,
• initiation,
• inkhorn,
• intransitive,
• knightly,
• labored,
• lawful,
• leaden,
• legal,
• legalistic,
• limited,
• linking,
• liturgic,
• liturgistic,
• liturgy,
• long-faced,
• lumbering,
• meet,
• methodical,
• modal,
• morphological,
• morphotic,
• mummery,
• nominal,
• nominative,
• normal,
• observance,
• office,
• official,
• old-fashioned,
• old-world,
• ordered,
• orderly,
• organic,
• organismal,
• orthodox,
• ostensible,
• outward,
• participial,
• paschal,
• pedantic,
• performance,
• plastic,
• pompous,
• ponderous,
• pontifical,
• postpositional,
• precise,
• prepositional,
• prescribed,
• pretended,
• prim,
• pro forma,
• professed,
• pronominal,
• proper,
• punctilious,
• purported,
• quasi,
• received,
• recognized,
• regalia,
• regular,
• religious ceremony,
• reserved,
• right,
• rigid,
• rite,
• rite de passage,
• rite of passage,
• ritual,
• ritualistic,
• routine,
• sacramental,
• sacramentarian,
• sedate,
• seemly,
• self-called,
• self-christened,
• self-important,
• self-styled,
• serious,
• service,
• sesquipedalian,
• set,
• so-called,
• sober,
• sober-minded,
• sobersided,
• soi-disant,
• solemn,
• solemnity,
• solemnization,
• somber,
• square,
• staid,
• standard,
• starched,
• stately,
• steady,
• stiff,
• stilted,
• stone-faced,
• straight,
• straight-faced,
• strait-laced,
• straitened,
• strict,
• structural,
• stuffy,
• stylized,
• substantive,
• substructural,
• superficial,
• superstructural,
• supposed,
• surface,
• swollen,
• symmetrical,
• syntactic,
• systematic,
• tagmemic,
• tails,
• tectonic,
• textural,
• thoughtful,
• titular,
• traditional,
• transitive,
• tumid,
• turgid,
• tuxedo,
• unbending,
• unchanging,
• uniform,
• unsmiling,
• unwieldy,
• usual,
• verbal,
• weighty,
• well-ordered,
• well-regulated,
• would-be