Synonyms:
formal
Meaning: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
Synonyms:
formal
Meaning: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
Synonyms:
formal
Meaning: (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"
Usage examples
Do not be in a hurry to reply by a formal refusal.
Taken by itself, the Greek argument is a nice piece of formal logic.
After supper the hours till midnight are passed in rather formal talk.
To my mind this repetition adds emphasis, although it is a formal blur.
You are formal only to the city editor, the managing editor, and the auditor.
William judged from the smile that he had laid his formal complaint before authority.
She made me talk French with her. My first formal dinner in France was a pleasant surprise.
Each has its formal side which concerns the soul, and its material side which concerns the body.
When a cold, formal handshake is necessary she perpetrates an embrace, and that is where we come in.
For them there could be no condonement, no compromise, no easy forgetfulness, no formal readjustment.