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formal


formal - noun

  • a lavish dance requiring formal attire
  • a gown for evening wear

    • formal - adjective

    • being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
    • characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
    • (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
    • represented in simplified or symbolic form
    • logically deductive
    • refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

    formal - thesaurus

    ball   conventional   courtly   schematic   stately  


    View spelling list or - longer words and learn about the word formal in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 14. Spelling choices for /or/ sound: or, ore, au, aw + war.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Art, general

    Scrabble score for formal

    f is 4 o is 1 r is 1 m is 3 a is 1 l is 1
    Scrabble score = 11

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