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Definition of Formal
1. Adjective. Being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress). "A formal education"
Also: Conventional
Similar to: Ceremonial, Ceremonious, Conventional, Dress, Full-dress, Form-only, Dress, Full-dress, Nominal, Titular, Positive, Prescribed, Perfunctory, Pro Forma, Black-tie, Semi-formal, Semiformal, Buckram, Starchy, Stiff, White-tie
Derivative terms: Formality, Formalness
Antonyms: Informal
2. Noun. A lavish dance requiring formal attire.
Generic synonyms: Dance
Specialized synonyms: Cotilion, Cotillion, Fancy-dress Ball, Masked Ball, Masquerade Ball, Prom, Promenade
3. Adjective. Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority. "An official banquet"
4. Noun. A gown for evening wear.
Generic synonyms: Evening Clothes, Evening Dress, Eveningwear, Formalwear, Gown
5. Adjective. (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"
6. Adjective. Represented in simplified or symbolic form.
Category relationships: Beaux Arts, Fine Arts
Similar to: Nonrepresentational
Derivative terms: Schema, Schema, Schematic, Scheme
7. Adjective. Logically deductive. "Formal proof"
8. Adjective. Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court. "A courtly gentleman"
Similar to: Dignified
Derivative terms: Court, Court, Court, Courtliness, Formalness, Stateliness
Definition of Formal
1. n. See Methylal.
2. a. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
Definition of Formal
1. Adjective. being in accord with established forms ¹
2. Adjective. official ¹
3. Adjective. relating to the form or structure of something ¹
4. Adjective. ceremonial ¹
5. Adjective. (gardening) organized; well-structured and planned ¹
6. Noun. formalin ¹
7. Noun. an evening gown ¹
8. Noun. an event with a formal dress code ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Formal
1. a social event that requires evening dress [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formal
Literary usage of Formal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"8 formal English Grammar; Its Uses and Abuses BY G. DAVID HOUSTON, ...
Like the "Brazen Head" of , Friar Bacon, formal Grammar has been expected | to ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The formal cause of material entities has been described as that substantial ...
Of this nature are said to be all substantial forms, or formal causes, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The earlier American cases usually hold that there must be a formal marriage before a
... A few states still adhere to the requirement of a formal marriage. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"negotiation which had been previously entered on for a marriage between Charles
and Christina, the sister of Louis XIII, as a preliminary to a more formal ..."
5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF CERTAIN DOCTRINES IN formal LOGIC.1 The tendency
of the later modern logic has certainly been to free the account of the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1872)
"This paper contains the following contributions to formal Logic :— Statement of
the Problem of Deductive Logic, with a classification of its cases. ..."
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