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Meaning of formal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  formal
      adj 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" [ant: {informal}]
      2: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal
         duties"; "an official banquet"
      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"
         [ant: {informal}]
      4: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
         {conventional}, {formal}, {schematic}]
      5: logically deductive; "formal proof"
      6: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a
         royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: {courtly}, {formal},
         {stately}]
      n 1: a lavish dance requiring formal attire [syn: {ball},
           {formal}]
      2: a gown for evening wear [syn: {dinner dress}, {dinner gown},
         {formal}, {evening gown}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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