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.
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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241. Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders.
242. On the other hand, some companies adopt a myopic view that limits development to formal education and training.
243. But they are likely to delay formal announcements until mid-October.
244. Reservations about formal interdisciplinary alliances may be reflected in a reluctance to purchase compilations of papers delivered in an interdisciplinary symposium.
245. Despite the hoopla, the Admiralty dragged its feet for a year in arranging the formal trial.
246. There are formal operational thinkers - those who immediately grasp the abstract form of the problem and solve it quickly and easily.
247. In formal education, the pressures of life under apartheid have had contradictory impacts on women.
248. Formal confirmation will be announced by the International Board in Wellington tomorrow afternoon.
248. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
249. Formal education will make you a living; self- education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn 
250. The continent approached the cataclysm of 1914 with a formal apparatus for the conduct of international relations which now seems strikingly small.
251. They have a formal code of recruitment and selection and a personnel specification for the task of advice worker.
252. It is important that we bear these differences in mind when we attempt to analyse the formal nature of public sector organisations.
253. Indeed, he has continued to play an active role in Bristol Physics since his formal retirement.
254. Her white satin evening gown was adorned with gold scrolls and squiggles of the sort that usually decorate formal window treatments.
255. Such a sweeping interpretation can be challenged by distinguishing between the formal acceptance of reform institutions from their operation in practice.
256. This may be accomplished by periodic formal physical therapy sessions backed up by daily home exercises.
257. Developers are staying tight-lipped about details of the housing scheme until a formal announcement is made.
258. Then, of course, the whole process of formal education is a crucial socialising agency.