Synonym: arranged, businesslike, correct, customary, orderly, proper, regular, stiff, structural, systematic. Antonym: informal. Similar words: normally, informal, format, formation, information, transformation, mall, small. Meaning: ['fɔrml /'fɔːml] n. 1. a lavish dance requiring formal attire 2. a gown for evening wear. adj. 1. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) 2. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority 3. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms 4. represented in simplified or symbolic form 5. logically deductive 6. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.
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31. Business letters do not have to be impersonal and formal.
32. People had to wear formal evening dress to go to the Mayor's party.
33. The representatives of both sides reciprocated formal expressions of goodwill.
34. A notice informed the guests that formal dress was required.
35. The monarch retains largely formal duties.
36. Does the company have a formal grievance procedure ?
37. He's made a formal identification of the body.
38. I shall get up carefully,the party is very formal.
39. The greeting was polite, almost formal.
40. Business letters need not be formal and impersonal.
41. The commission has no formal competence in cultural matters.
42. Some teachers have a more formal approach to teaching.
43. The garden is laid out in a formal pattern.
44. There is no formal linkage between the two agreements.
45. Sometimes formal English and informal English are undistinguished.
46. Training for nursing was on strictly formal lines.
47. We will make a formal announcement tomorrow.
48. He has had no formal schooling.
49. They greeted their visitor with formal politeness.
50. The government will issue a formal declaration tomorrow.
51. Mr Genoa filed a formal complaint against the department.
52. Her words sounded oddly formal.sentencedict.com/formal.html
53. Jack didn't receive much formal schooling.
54. The group is now seeking formal acceptance.
55. Spelling mistakes always look sloppy in a formal letter.
56. We are working towards a formal ceasefire agreement.
57. My own schooldays prejudiced me against all formal education.
58. Their wedding was stuffy and formal.
59. He held no formal qualification in law.
60. A formal contract is signed which is renewable annually.