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formal
Synonyms and Antonyms of formal
- He asked her to the formal at the end of the year.
formal
Synonyms and Antonyms of formal
- a formal meeting of the board of directors
- a formal contract that was legally binding
authorized, certified, official, sanctioned
accepted, correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
formalistic, ritual, ritualistic
methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic
- was the formal head of the charitable organization though he never attended a single meeting
- We gave her a formal invitation to dinner.
- The dress code is formal for tonight's event.
- a shop that rents out formal wear
- the formal language of the coronation ceremony
affected, bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), oratorical, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical (also rhetoric), stilted
classy, courtly, fine, graceful, tasteful
aristocratic, genteel, patrician
correct, educated, grammatical, proper
academic (also academical), bookish, learned, literary
casual, colloquial, conversational, informal, nonformal, slangy, unbookish, unliterary, vernacular
coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indecent, lowbred, lowbrow, rough, rough-hewn, rude, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
incorrect, substandard, uneducated, ungrammatical, unlearned
Synonym Discussion of formal
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- a ceremonial offering
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- made his ceremonious entrance
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- a formal report
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- the headmaster's formal manner
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- conventional courtesy
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- conventional fiction
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