Formal

Adjective

 * 1) being in accord with established forms
 * 2) official
 * 3) relating to the form or structure of something
 * 4) ceremonial
 * 5)  Organized; well-structured and planned.

Noun

 * 1) formalin

Adverbs for Formal
extremely; unusually; officially; strictly; conventionally; dogmatically; ritualistically; legally; ecclesiastically; absolutely; undeviatingly; explicitly; solemnly; ceremoniously; curiously; gracefully; splendidly; brilliantly; terribly; awesomely; punctiliously; meticulously; particularly; needlessly; coldly; unnecessarily; foolishly.

Synonyms for Formal
methodical, stiff, exact, precise, ritualistic, ceremonious, ceremonial, orderly, punctilious, official, systematic, pompous, impresslve, solemn, functional, imposing, ministerial.

Antonyms for Formal

 * informal, ordinary, common, casual, relaxed, normal, customary, usual, unconventional, habitual, normal, customary, comfortable, genial.

Derived terms

 * formalize
 * formalist
 * formalism
 * formality

Related terms

 * form

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< formel: <  formel: <  formalis: < forma:; see form.

Pronunciation




Adjective

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 * German:
 * Persian: صوری
 * Romanian: formal


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 * Romanian: oficial, formal


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 * German: Form-
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Etymology
formalis < forma - form.

Adjective
formal


 * 1) formal.

Adjective

 * 1) formal

Adjective

 * 1) formal

Related terms

 * formalidad