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Meaning of formal
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
formal
adj 1: 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" [ant: {informal}]
2: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal
duties"; "an official banquet"
3: (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"
[ant: {informal}]
4: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
{conventional}, {formal}, {schematic}]
5: logically deductive; "formal proof"
6: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a
royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: {courtly}, {formal},
{stately}]
n 1: a lavish dance requiring formal attire [syn: {ball},
{formal}]
2: a gown for evening wear [syn: {dinner dress}, {dinner gown},
{formal}, {evening gown}]
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