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adj. Relating to or involving outward form or structure.

adj. Being or relating to essential form or constitution: a formal principle.

adj. Following or being in accord with accepted forms, conventions, or regulations: had little formal education; went to a formal party.

adj. Executed, carried out, or done in proper or regular form: a formal reprimand; a formal document.

adj. Characterized by strict or meticulous observation of forms; methodical: very formal in their business transactions.

adj. Stiffly ceremonious: a formal manner; a formal greeting; a formal bow to the monarch.

adj. Having the outward appearance but lacking in substance: a formal requirement that is usually ignored.

n. Something, such as a gown or social affair, that is formal in nature.

adj. being in accord with established forms

adj. official

adj. relating to the form or structure of something

adj. ceremonial

adj. organized; well-structured and planned

n. formalin

n. an evening gown

n. an event with a formal dress code

n. See methylal.

adj. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

adj. 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.

adj. Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express.

adj. Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious.

adj. Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external

adj. Dependent in form; conventional.

adj. Sound; normal.

According to form, rule, or established order; according to the rules of law or custom; systematic; regular; legal.

Characterized by or made or done in strict or undue conformity to legal or conventional rules; notably conventional.

Observing or requiring strict observance of the rules of law, custom, or etiquette; strictly ceremonious; precise: exact to affectation; punctilious.

Regular or methodical in action.

Having conformity with the rules of art; scholastic; theoretical; also, rhetorical; academical; expressed in artificial language.

Relating to form merely, not to the substance or matter; having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; outward: as, a formal defect; formal duty; formal worship.

Embodied in a form; personified. The allusion in the extract is to the character of the Vice who, under many aliases, was an attendant on the Devil in the old moralities. See iniquity and vice.

Pertaining to or regarding the shape and appearance of a living being; characteristic; proper; sane.

Pertaining to form, in sense 8, especially in the Aristotelian use, opposed to materiȧl; essential; express. See phrases below.

Pertaining to those elements of cognition which according to Kant have their origin in the nature of the mind itself; universal and necessary.

Implicit; not active; latent; virtual.

n. A trade-name for formaldehyde.

adj. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

adj. logically deductive

n. a gown for evening wear

adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form

n. a lavish dance requiring formal attire

adj. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

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

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

"As a formal theory (in Husserl's sense of ˜formal™, i.e., as opposed to ˜material™) mereology is simply an attempt to lay down the general principles underlying the relationships between an entity and its constituent parts, whatever the nature of the entity, just as set theory is an attempt to lay down the principles underlying the relationships between a set and its members."

official    logical    nonrepresentational    literary    starchy    prescribed    buckram    pro forma    white-tie    nominal   

informal   

formalwear    evening clothes    eveningwear    evening dress    gown   

definite    formal cause    formal criterion of truth    formal truth    formal logic    formal law    formal nature    formal part    formal significate    formal object of a faculty   

form   

methylal   

formalize    formalism    formality    formalist   

affected    outward    ceremonial    ritual    punctilious    external    starched    stiff    precise    constituent   

Normal    abnormal    informal    normal    paranormal   

proper    simple    solemn    conventional