formal

/fˈɔɹməl/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
“pay one's formal respects”
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
“formal duties”
(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”
represented in simplified or symbolic form
logically deductive
“formal proof”
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
“a courtly gentleman”

noun

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