DICTOMETER

FORMAL

(formal, formell)

1. Synonyms:
   • Ball
   • Formal
   Definitions:
   • a lavish dance requiring formal attire
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Dinner dress
   • Dinner gown
   • Formal
   • Evening gown
   Definitions:
   • a gown for evening wear
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Formal
   Definitions:
   • being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
   Examples:
   • Pay one's formal respects
   • Formal dress
   • A formal ball
   • The requirement was only formal and often ignored
   • A formal education
   Antonyms:
   • INFORMAL
   • casual, everyday, daily
   • free-and-easy, casual
   • folksy
   • unceremonious, unceremonial
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Formal
   Definitions:
   • characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
   Examples:
   • Formal duties
   • An official banquet
   Antonyms:
   • Unofficial
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Formal
   Definitions:
   • (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
   Examples:
   • The paper was written in formal English
   Antonyms:
   • INFORMAL
   • colloquial, conversational
   • common, vernacular, vulgar
   • epistolary, epistolatory
   • slangy
   • subliterary
   • unliterary, nonliterary
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Conventional
   • Formal
   • Schematic
   Definitions:
   • represented in simplified or symbolic form
   Antonyms:
   • Representational
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Formal
   Definitions:
   • logically deductive
   Examples:
   • Formal proof
   Antonyms:
   • Illogical
   • Unlogical
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Courtly
   • Formal
   • Stately
   Definitions:
   • refined or imposing in manner or appearance
   • befitting a royal court
   Examples:
   • A courtly gentleman
   Antonyms:
   • Undignified