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formal a. 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"
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formal a. (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"
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formal n. [
ball] a lavish dance requiring formal attire
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formal n. [
dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown] a gown for evening wear
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formal s. [
conventional, schematic] represented in simplified or symbolic form
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