Thesaurus: formal

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1. n. See Methylal.
2. a. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
3. a. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
4. a. Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
5. a. Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
6. a. Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
7. a. Dependent in form; conventional.
8. a. Sound; normal.
9. adj. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
10. adj. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
11. adj. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
12. adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form