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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" ceremonial, ceremonious, dress, form-only(a), full-dress, nominal, positive, semiformal, starchy, white-tie, pro forma (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" literary logically deductive; "formal proof" logical characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" official represented in simplified or symbolic form nonrepresentational refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" dignified |
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