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    • formal :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

    • formal :characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
      • formal duties|an official banquet

    • formal :(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

    • formal :logically deductive
      • formal proof

    • formal :refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
      • a courtly gentleman

    • formal :a lavish dance requiring formal attire

      • formal :a gown for evening wear

        • formal :represented in simplified or symbolic form

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