Noun
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a gown for evening wear
- dinner dress - dinner gown - evening gown -
a lavish dance requiring formal attire
Adjective
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refined or imposing in manner or appearance
befitting a royal court
"a courtly gentleman"
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logically deductive
"formal proof"
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represented in simplified or symbolic form
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(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"
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characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
"formal duties"
"an official banquet"
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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"