noun : FORMAL
Source: WordNet 3.1
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2. (
) a gown for evening wear ;
Adjective : FORMAL
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) 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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2. (
) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" ;
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3. (
) (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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4. (
) represented in simplified or symbolic form ;
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5. (
) logically deductive; "formal proof" ;
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