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formal

English

  1. 🔊 being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
    “pay one's formal respects”
  2. 🔊 (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”
  3. 🔊 logically deductive
    “formal proof”
  4. 🔊 characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
    “formal duties”
  5. 🔊 refined or imposing in manner or appearance
    “a courtly gentleman”
  6. 🔊 represented in simplified or symbolic form
  7. 🔊 a lavish dance requiring formal attire
  8. 🔊 a gown for evening wear

Spanish

  1. 🔊 formal formal
  2. 🔊 formulario formal

Similar words

dinner dress dinner gown evening gown ball courtly stately conventional schematic high-church latinate accepted acknowledged adjectival admitted adverbial anatomic approved architectonic architectural arranged attributive authorized awkward baccalaureate service