Exact Match:
- formalized
- given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- formal
collapse - 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" related words >
- High-Church,
- Latinate,
- accepted,
- acknowledged,
- adjectival,
- admitted,
- adverbial,
- anatomic,
- approved,
- architectonic,
- architectural,
- arranged,
- attributive,
- authorized,
- awkward,
- baccalaureate service,
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- bloated,
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- byname,
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- ceremony,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- cognominal,
- comme il faut,
- commencement,
- conditional,
- confining,
- conformable,
- conjunctive,
- constructional,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convocation,
- copulative,
- correct,
- courtly,
- cramped,
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- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- definite,
- demure,
- dignified,
- diminutive,
- distant,
- dress uniform,
- earnest,
- edificial,
- elephantine,
- empty formality,
- epithetic,
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- eucharistic,
- evening dress,
- exact,
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- exercise,
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- extrinsic,
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- formal dress,
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- frowning,
- full dress,
- function,
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- gallant,
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- graduation,
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- grammatic,
- grandiloquent,
- grave,
- grim,
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- guinde,
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- halting,
- harmonious,
- heavy,
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- 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,
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- methodical,
- modal,
- morphological,
- morphotic,
- mummery,
- nominal,
- nominative,
- normal,
- observance,
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- old-fashioned,
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- ordered,
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- organic,
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- ostensible,
- outward,
- participial,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
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- pompous,
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- postpositional,
- precise,
- prepositional,
- prescribed,
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- prim,
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- purported,
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- received,
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- regalia,
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- religious ceremony,
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- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- routine,
- sacramental,
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- 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,
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- symmetrical,
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- tagmemic,
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- thoughtful,
- titular,
- traditional,
- transitive,
- tumid,
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- tuxedo,
- unbending,
- unchanging,
- uniform,
- unsmiling,
- unwieldy,
- usual,
- verbal,
- weighty,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated,
- would-be
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