Definition of formal

"formal" in the noun sense

1. ball, formal

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

2. dinner dress, dinner gown, formal, evening gown

a gown for evening wear

"formal" in the adjective sense

1. formal

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"

2. formal

characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

"formal duties"

"an official banquet"

3. formal

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"

4. conventional, formal, schematic

represented in simplified or symbolic form

5. formal

logically deductive

"formal proof"

6. courtly, formal, stately

refined or imposing in manner or appearance befitting a royal court

"a courtly gentleman"

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Quotations for formal

Friends need no formal invitation. [ Proverb ]

Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when reduced to a system in books, as a body of rules derived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. [ W. E. Channing ]

Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]

formal in Scrabble®

The word formal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters formal:

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formal in Words With Friends™

The word formal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters formal:

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Words within the letters of formal

2 letter words in formal (7 words)

3 letter words in formal (9 words)

4 letter words in formal (12 words)

5 letter words in formal (3 words)

6 letter words in formal (1 word)

formal + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence formal

Word Growth involving formal

Shorter words in formal

or for form

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Longer words containing formal

conformal nonconformal

formalazine

formaldehyde formaldehydes formaldehydesulphoxylate formaldehydesulphoxylates

formaldehyde formaldehydes formaldehydesulphoxylic

formaldehyde formaldehydes paraformaldehydes

formaldehyde metaformaldehyde

formaldehyde paraformaldehyde paraformaldehydes

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