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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61. He looked impossibly handsome in his formal suit.
62. He has no formal teaching qualifications.
63. 'I didn't realise it was a formal occasion.' 'Obviously!'
64. His letter was couched in very formal language.
65. No formal announcement had been made.
66. She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman.
67. The job does not require any formal training.
68. The report elicited a formal reply from the minister.
69. Exceptionally, students may be accepted without formal qualifications.
70. Formal authorization for the trip was given last week.
71. His manner was stiffly formal.
72. Your short skirt is inappropriate for a formal party.
73. She had no formal instruction in music.
74. I asked him to arrange a formal briefing.
75. Their goodbyes were stiff and formal .
76. We insist on formal dress for dinner.
77. The occasion requires formal dress.
78. He's very formal with everybody.
79. Business relationships are necessarily a bit more formal.
80. Their dinner parties had become considerably less formal.
81. He received a formal caution.
82. She was very formal and proper.
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83. They lodged a formal protest against their government.
84. I'm composing a formal reply to the letter.
85. The course includes formal lectures and more informal seminars.
86. I felt ill at ease in such formal clothes.
87. He was insistent on a formal written agreement.
88. Leroy didn't have any formal dance training.
89. Her dress was too showy for such a formal occasion.
90. I've had to unlearn the way I played guitar since I started taking formal lessons.