formal

formal is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Methylal. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See Methylal.
2. adjective. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
3. adjective. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
4. adjective. Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
5. adjective. Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
6. adjective. Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
7. adjective. Dependent in form; conventional.
8. adjective. Sound; normal.
9. noun. a gown for evening wear
10. noun. a lavish dance requiring formal attire

    Synonyms: ball

11. adjective. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

    "a courtly gentleman"

    Synonyms: courtly, stately

12. adjective. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

    "pay one's formal respects"

    "formal dress"

13. adjective. (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"

14. adjective. logically deductive

    "formal proof"

15. adjective. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

    "formal duties"

    "an official banquet"

16. adjective. represented in simplified or symbolic form

    Synonyms: conventional, schematic

Synonyms

ball, courtly, stately, conventional, schematic

Common word forms

formals, formally, formalise, formality, formalize, formalness

Words from these letters

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