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src: wikipedia
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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 :refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- formal :a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- formal :a gown for evening wear
- formal :represented in simplified or symbolic form