[
UK
/fˈɔːməl/
]
[ US /ˈfɔɹməɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹməɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a gown for evening wear
ADJECTIVE
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being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
a formal ball
formal dress
the requirement was only formal and often ignored
pay one's formal respects
a formal education -
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
an official banquet
formal duties -
logically deductive
formal proof -
(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 -
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
a courtly gentleman - represented in simplified or symbolic form
How To Use formal In A Sentence
- There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
- When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
- Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
- For example, it was embodied in a system of "informal economics". Critical Social Research
- In other words, he was responsible for formal receptions - known as levees - and dinners.
- When faced with serious disasters, countries often declare a formal state of emergency.
- The watchdog plans to issue formal regulatory guidance setting out how companies should handle endowment complaints and assess where compensation is due.
- However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
- Any attempt to disprove the theory of evolution using thermodynamics will require proper formalisms.
- The formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 did not automatically change any of that for the better.
