What are the opposite words for informal?
Antonyms for the word "informal" include formal, official, rigid, ceremonious, conventional, proper, decorous, and stiff. Formal implies adherence to established rules and customs, while official connotes a sense of authority and regulation. Rigid suggests strict and inflexible adherence to rules and protocol, whereas ceremonious implies an emphasis on tradition and ceremony. Conventional emphasizes adherence to established norms and traditions, while proper suggests adherence to etiquette and social norms. Decorous implies a sense of propriety and respectability, while stiff suggests a lack of warmth and flexibility. Overall, these antonyms highlight the importance of adhering to specific rules, customs or traditions instead of deviating from the norm.
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- dignified
- dressy
- prissy
- stiff
- stuffy
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- formal
- honorable
- impersonal
- pedantic
- prim
- stately
- all
- ritual, formal
- punctilious
- formal, fashionable
- cold, unfriendly
- casual, simple
- bookish, precise
- particular, fussy
- particular and fussy
- careful, finicky
- dignified, impressive
- hard, inflexible
- close, oppressive
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- dignified
- dressy
-
prissy
- tight-laced,
- prim and proper,
- goody two shoes,
- goody-two-shoes,
- more goody two shoes,
- more goody-two-shoes,
- more pansified,
- more tight laced,
- more tight-laced,
- more tightlaced,
- most goody two shoes,
- most goody-two-shoes,
- most pansified,
- most tight laced,
- most tight-laced,
- most tightlaced,
- pansified,
- prim proper,
- sissier,
- sissiest,
- tight laced,
- tightlaced.
-
stiff
- arthritic,
- buckram,
- creaky,
- hardheaded,
- rheumatic,
- steely,
- unrelaxed,
- Impliable,
- Unflexible,
- creakier,
- head-strong,
- be numbed,
- be-numbed,
- creakiest,
- ex acting,
- ex-acting,
- in compliant,
- in flexible,
- in tractable,
- in-compliant,
- in-exorable,
- in-flexible,
- in-ordinate,
- in-tractable,
- more arthritic,
- more cemented,
- more chilled,
- more congealed,
- more contracted,
- more immalleable,
- more impliable,
- more indurate,
- more jelled,
- more numbed,
- more solidified,
- more thickened,
- more unflexible,
- more unrelaxed,
- most arthritic,
- most cemented,
- most chilled,
- most congealed,
- most contracted,
- most hardheaded,
- most immalleable,
- most impliable,
- most indurate,
- most jelled,
- most numbed,
- most rheumatic,
- most unflexible,
- most unrelaxed,
- steeliest,
- stiff as a board,
- stiff as board,
- un conscionable,
- un due,
- un duest,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- un flexible,
- un gainlier,
- un gainliest,
- un gainly,
- un graceful,
- un relaxed,
- un relenting,
- un supple,
- un suppler,
- un supplest,
- un yielding,
- un-conscionable,
- un-due,
- un-duer,
- un-duest,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- un-flexible,
- un-gainly,
- un-graceful,
- un-natural,
- un-relaxed,
- un-supple,
- un-suppler,
- un-supplest,
- un-yielding,
- unsuppler,
- unsupplest,
- up hill,
- up-hill.
- stuffy
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
-
formal
- formal,
- formalistic,
- Starched,
- by numbers,
- ceremonialistic,
- ex press,
- ex-press,
- more ceremonialistic,
- more formalistic,
- more ritual,
- more starched,
- most ceremonialistic,
- most formalistic,
- most ritual,
- most starched,
- playing game,
- playing the game,
- pre scribed,
- pre-scribed,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- stereo typed,
- stereo typical,
- stereo-typed,
- stereo-typical,
- un bending,
- un-bending.
- honorable
-
impersonal
- bureaucratic,
- impartial,
- poker-faced,
- uncolored,
- nondiscriminatory,
- Unpassioned,
- coldblooded,
- cold blooded,
- dis interested,
- dis passionate,
- dis-interested,
- dis-passionate,
- in different,
- in human,
- in-different,
- in-human,
- more bureaucratic,
- more nondiscriminatory,
- more poker faced,
- more poker-faced,
- more uncolored,
- more unpassioned,
- most bureaucratic,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- most poker faced,
- most poker-faced,
- most uncolored,
- most unpassioned,
- non discriminatory,
- non-discriminatory,
- poker faced,
- re-mote,
- strictly business,
- un biased,
- un colored,
- un-colored.
- pedantic
-
prim
- overmodest,
- prudish,
- spic-and-span,
- uncluttered,
- Bluenose,
- Stickling,
- cleanlier,
- cleanliest,
- blue nose,
- blue-nose,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- goody goody,
- more blue nose,
- more blue-nose,
- more bluenose,
- more overmodest,
- more spic and span,
- more spic-and-span,
- more stickling,
- more uncluttered,
- most blue nose,
- most blue-nose,
- most bluenose,
- most overmodest,
- most spic and span,
- most spic-and-span,
- most stickling,
- most uncluttered,
- over modest,
- over-modest,
- spic and span,
- strait laced,
- un cluttered,
- un-cluttered,
- well groomed,
- wellgroomed.
- stately
- all
- ritual, formal
- punctilious
- formal, fashionable
- cold, unfriendly
- casual, simple
- bookish, precise
-
particular, fussy
- prim.
- particular and fussy
- careful, finicky
- dignified, impressive
- hard, inflexible
- close, oppressive
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Other relevant words
- pro forma,
- best,
- chic,
- constrained,
- dressed-up,
- educated,
- elegant,
- fashionable,
- grammatical,
- inhibited,
- neat,
- restrained,
- rigid,
- routine,
- smart,
- standard,
- stuffy,
- stylish,
- tidy,
- trim,
- unfriendly,
- uptight.
- Other antonyms
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- Antonyms:
- abstain, avoid, bear.