formal
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Related to formal: Formal language, Formal education
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Synonyms for formal
serious
official
ceremonial
learned
conventional
arranged
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Synonyms for formal
fond of or given to ceremony
of or characterized by ceremony
requiring elegant clothes and fine manners
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Synonyms for formal
a lavish dance requiring formal attire
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a gown for evening wear
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
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characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
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(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
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represented in simplified or symbolic form
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logically deductive
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