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formal (n):
a gown for evening wear

formal (n):
a lavish dance requiring formal attire

formal (s):
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
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a courtly gentleman

formal (a):
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
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pay one's formal respects.
formal dress.
a formal ball.
the requirement was only formal and often ignored.
a formal education

formal (a):
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
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the paper was written in formal English

formal (s):
logically deductive
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formal proof

formal (s):
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
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formal duties.
an official banquet

formal (s):
represented in simplified or symbolic form

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