What is another word for formal?
782 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fˈɔːmə͡l], [ fˈɔːməl], [ f_ˈɔː_m_əl]
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Similar words for formal:
- all (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- civil (adjective)
- courtly (adjective)
- decorous (adjective)
- dignified (adjective)
- distant (adjective)
- dogmatic (adjective)
- dressed up (adjective)
- elevated (adjective)
- formal (adjective)
- frigid (adjective)
- genteel (adjective)
- impersonal (adjective)
- literary (adjective)
- nominal (adjective)
- official (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- orderly (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passionless (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- precise (adjective)
- prim (adjective)
- proper (adjective)
- punctilious (adjective)
- regular (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- so-called (adjective)
- solemn (adjective)
- staid (adjective)
- stately (adjective)
- stilted (adjective)
- stock (adjective)
- stodgy (adjective)
- supposed (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- unresponsive (adjective)
- black-tie (noun)
- buckram (noun)
- ceremonial (noun)
- ceremonious (noun)
- clothes (noun)
- dance (noun)
- dress (noun)
- evening dress (noun)
- form-only (noun)
- formal (noun)
- full-dress (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- white-tie (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- reasoning (verb)
- other synonyms
- black-tie
- other relevant words
- prudish
Synonyms for Formal:
adj.
• all (adjective) • austere (adjective)- exacting,
- unrelenting,
- unfeeling,
- rigorous,
- ascetic,
- somber,
- grim,
- harsh,
- inflexible,
- stringent,
- obdurate,
- earnest,
- astringent,
- inexorable,
- serious,
- grave,
- hard,
- stern,
- forbidding,
- sober,
- cold,
- stiff.
- civilized,
- diplomatic,
- suave,
- cultivated,
- wellmannered,
- complaisant,
- mannerly,
- gracious,
- affable,
- cordial,
- well-bred,
- polished,
- politic,
- urbane,
- courteous,
- refined,
- accommodating.
- chivalrous,
- elegant,
- High-bred,
- flattering,
- august,
- gallant,
- cultured,
- preux,
- obliging,
- complimentary,
- lofty,
- aristocratic,
- studied,
- imposing.
- done,
- demure,
- fit,
- befitting,
- meet,
- sedate,
- becoming,
- well-behaved,
- fitting,
- decent,
- good,
- seasonable,
- right,
- moral,
- comely,
- de rigueur,
- Comme Il Faut,
- au fait,
- conforming,
- nice,
- respectable.
- noble,
- magnificent,
- respected,
- great,
- upright,
- regal,
- distinguished,
- highbrow,
- eminent,
- grand,
- magisterial,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- superior,
- proud.
- re strained,
- more standoff,
- most standoff,
- most insociable,
- in-sociable,
- up-pity,
- on ice,
- unapproachable,
- un-concerned,
- re-tiring,
- re-strained,
- un-friendly,
- un-approachable,
- re-mote,
- Insociable,
- un friendliest,
- more insociable,
- un approachable,
- put airs,
- re tiring,
- un-friendliest,
- un concerned,
- in sociable,
- up pity,
- un-friendlier,
- un-sociable,
- stuckup,
- un sociable,
- un friendlier.
- de finite,
- more excathedra,
- more dictative,
- more reasoned,
- most doctrinal,
- most deductive,
- more doctrinal,
- in-evitable,
- most excathedra,
- onesided,
- un changeable,
- eternal,
- as matter course,
- narrowminded,
- most wrong headed,
- un equivocal,
- as matter of course,
- more wrong-headed,
- most stiff-necked,
- de-finite,
- more stiff necked,
- most wrong-headed,
- over bearing,
- most fascistic,
- most wrongheaded,
- most reasoned,
- stiffnecked,
- more wrong headed,
- more stiffnecked,
- un qualified,
- unerring,
- more fascistic,
- most stiffnecked,
- one sided,
- wrong headed,
- un erring,
- un-qualified,
- in-tolerant,
- high mighty,
- un-equivocal,
- un-changeable,
- narrow minded,
- more wrongheaded,
- most dictative,
- doctrinaire,
- more stiff-necked,
- as a matter course,
- peremptory,
- more deductive,
- Over-bearing,
- most stiff necked,
- in tolerant,
- stiff necked,
- in evitable,
- un-erring.
- dressed the nines,
- in ones best bib tucker,
- in one best bib and tucker,
- dressed nines,
- in best bib and tucker,
- in best bib tucker,
- in one's best bib tucker,
- in ones best bib and tucker,
- in one best bib tucker,
- dressed kill.
- exact,
- strict,
- by the numbers,
- rigid,
- ceremonialistic,
- straight arrow,
- seemly,
- express,
- confirmed,
- stereotypical,
- fixed,
- prescribed,
- stuffy,
- playing the game,
- lawful,
- Starched,
- systematic,
- directed,
- sententious,
- aloof,
- pro forma,
- stereotyped,
- explicit,
- legal,
- approved.
- more cold-shoulder,
- un loving,
- un-loving,
- more cold shoulder,
- most unloving,
- most cold-shoulder,
- cold hearted,
- most coldshoulder,
- more unloving,
- more coldshoulder,
- most cold shoulder.
- dis-interested,
- most uncolored,
- dis passionate,
- un-colored,
- most poker-faced,
- non-discriminatory,
- more unpassioned,
- cold blooded,
- poker faced,
- in-human,
- in human,
- un colored,
- un biased,
- impartial,
- non discriminatory,
- more nondiscriminatory,
- more poker-faced,
- more poker faced,
- more bureaucratic,
- most unpassioned,
- dis interested,
- most bureaucratic,
- more uncolored,
- dis-passionate,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- most poker faced.
- more purported,
- more selfstyled,
- self styled,
- most puppet,
- more puppet,
- most purported,
- more self-styled,
- selfstyled,
- most selfstyled,
- more self styled,
- most self-styled,
- in effect only,
- pre-tended,
- most self styled.
- re cognized,
- more cathedral,
- most cathedral,
- ex officio,
- more authenticated,
- most certified,
- most authenticated,
- re-cognized.
- all together,
- set-up,
- in shape,
- to rights,
- in order,
- uncluttered,
- in apple-pie order,
- neat as pin,
- in good shape,
- neat as button.
- exhibitionistic,
- blatant,
- boastful,
- gaudy,
- flourishing,
- pompous,
- splashy,
- jaunty,
- grandiose,
- flashy,
- ostentatious,
- showy,
- ornate,
- garish,
- flamboyant,
- dramatic,
- forced,
- rakish,
- flagrant,
- sensational,
- fussy,
- vain,
- histrionic,
- shameless,
- opulent,
- affected,
- dashing,
- snazzy,
- Flaunting,
- grandiloquent.
- dressed to kill,
- staid,
- queenliest,
- dignified,
- laid back,
- coldhearted,
- by fiat,
- conventional,
- nondiscriminatory,
- Pedantical,
- over-scrupulous,
- stuck up,
- uncolored,
- on faith,
- Uncompanionable,
- be fitting,
- locked in,
- orderly,
- solemn,
- stock,
- civil,
- non-committal,
- passionless,
- over-modest,
- wrong-headed,
- fascistic,
- Inkhorn,
- deductive,
- gussied up,
- nit-picking,
- dressed up,
- do or die,
- punctilious,
- button down,
- hold the fort,
- be coming,
- impersonal,
- reserved,
- stiff-necked,
- in established usage,
- Unflexible,
- unbending,
- self-styled,
- highfaluting,
- Overscrupulous,
- put on airs,
- pedantic,
- unloving,
- hard as nails,
- wrongheaded,
- Unpassioned,
- courtly,
- self-controlled,
- by natural law,
- regular,
- set in stone,
- stodgy,
- donnish,
- dogmatic,
- Euphuistic,
- cold-shoulder,
- Bluenose,
- proper,
- coldshoulder,
- strictly business,
- hard line,
- nominal,
- in name only,
- prim,
- chill,
- formalistic,
- distant,
- belletristic,
- in one's best bib and tucker,
- doctrinal,
- ex cathedra,
- genteel,
- distingue,
- ungenial,
- excathedra,
- no nonsense,
- highfalutin',
- spic-and-span,
- literary,
- declamatory,
- wornout,
- over-nice,
- coldblooded,
- as a matter of course,
- schoolish,
- spic and span,
- in full dress,
- bureaucratic,
- stately,
- poker-faced,
- austere,
- precise,
- ardorless,
- blue-nose,
- singleminded,
- adulatory,
- dictative,
- sticking to one's guns,
- unwelcoming,
- overmodest,
- stilted,
- conscionable,
- Self-restrained,
- official,
- overconscientious,
- as advertised,
- cold sober,
- hold ground,
- decorous,
- eremitic,
- by nature,
- dressed to nines,
- ex-cathedra,
- tralatitious.
- most nit picking,
- most hairsplitting,
- most schoolish,
- more nit picking,
- over nice,
- most overnice,
- overnice,
- more nit-picking,
- more donnish,
- more hairsplitting,
- most donnish,
- more overnice,
- more schoolish,
- nit picking,
- most nit-picking.
- more spic-and-span,
- more spic and span,
- most blue nose,
- blue nose,
- most overmodest,
- wellgroomed,
- cleanliest,
- goodygoody,
- most blue-nose,
- more overmodest,
- most bluenose,
- well groomed,
- strait laced,
- most spic and span,
- goody goody,
- more bluenose,
- more blue nose,
- cleanlier,
- more blue-nose,
- most spic-and-span,
- over modest.
- more overscrupulous,
- more conscionable,
- over-conscientious,
- most overscrupulous,
- more overconscientious,
- most formalistic,
- over conscientious,
- most overconscientious,
- most conscionable,
- over scrupulous,
- more formalistic,
- good eye.
- mis anthropic,
- non committal,
- softspoken,
- most eremitic,
- un-demonstrative,
- mis-anthropic,
- re-served,
- re served,
- close mouthed,
- more eremitic,
- un-communicative,
- self contained,
- selfcontained,
- un demonstrative,
- more reclusive,
- soft spoken,
- self-contained.
- standing ones ground,
- up-tight,
- more unflexible,
- in-tractable,
- up tight,
- set stone,
- re solute,
- un flexible,
- Unswayable,
- un-yielding,
- in-compliant,
- in compliant,
- hardline,
- sticking to guns,
- sticking to one guns,
- un-flexible,
- un-bending,
- un swayable,
- hold fort,
- sticking ones guns,
- un yielding,
- re-solute,
- sticking one's guns,
- in elastic,
- single minded,
- more unswayable,
- in tractable,
- most unflexible,
- sticking guns,
- hold line,
- un bending,
- hold one ground,
- standing ground,
- un-swayable,
- hold ones ground,
- standing one ground,
- most unswayable,
- sticking one guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- standing one's ground,
- in-elastic,
- do die.
n.
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•
- button-down,
- baggy,
- button-through,
- Clingy,
- brief,
- set,
- A-LINE,
- symmetrical,
- casual,
- boot-cut,
- best,
- backless.
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•
- aesthetic,
- polite,
- avant-garde,
- accessible,
- artistic,
- artsy-craftsy,
- camp,
- campy,
- baroque,
- abstract.
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•
- compost,
- bed out,
- cross-pollinate,
- bonsai,
- courtesy,
- cross-fertilize,
- drill,
- feed,
- deadhead,
- aerate.
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•
- chemise.
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•
- mechanised.
- disco,
- masquerade,
- formals,
- mingle,
- brawl,
- prom,
- jump,
- sock hop,
- socials,
- hop,
- shindig,
- ball,
- hoedown,
- promenade.
- white tie and tails,
- formalwear,
- evening gowns,
- evening gown,
- evening wear,
- evening clothes,
- full evening dress,
- dress clothes,
- soup-and-fish.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb) • reasoning (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- educational,
- intermediate,
- bacchanalian,
- shirtwaist,
- sari,
- curricular,
- didactic,
- in service,
- interdisciplinary,
- folk dance,
- sundress,
- higher,
- BYOB,
- vocational,
- sarong,
- mini,
- dirndl,
- multidisciplinary,
- tutorial,
- professorial,
- slip dress,
- kanga,
- body popping,
- remedial,
- lungi,
- Via,
- hands-on,
- cheongsam,
- diachronic,
- muu-muu,
- secondary,
- bottom-up,
- self-educated,
- primary,
- multimedia,
- tap dancing,
- ballroom dancing,
- habitual,
- definite,
- miniskirt,
- pedagogical,
- specialist,
- whereby,
- intensive,
- postdoctoral,
- heuristic,
- cocktail dress,
- tuxedo,
- instructional,
- triumphal,
- well-rounded,
- scholarly,
- under,
- mechanized,
- elementary,
- breakdancing,
- applied,
- synchronic,
- ballgown,
- dressed-up,
- line dancing,
- postgraduate.
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•
- frock,
- liberal,
- thus,
- scholastic,
- graduate,
- jumper,
- top-down,
- advanced,
- progressive,
- academic,
- phonic,
- ritualistic,
- cheerleading,
- head-on,
- liturgical,
- wrap,
- pinafore,
- habit,
- classical.
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•
- ritual,
- wraparound,
- gown.
-
•
- tap.
How to use "Formal" in context?
and "informal"
Formal attire is typically more structured, such as a suit or dress, while informal attire is more relaxed, such as a shirt and pants. This distinction can vary depending on the setting. For example, at work, formal attire is typically considered more appropriate, while at a dinner party, informal attire is more appropriate. The terms can also be used to describe different types of relationships. For example, a business relationship can be described as formal, while a personal relationship can be described as informal.
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
informal.
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Proper noun, singular
informal.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
authentic, categorical, celebratory, classical, conventional, definitive, explicit, full-fledged, institutionalised, institutionalized, magisterial, nominal, normal, procedural, regularized, scholastic, structured, theoretical, traditional, typical, unofficial, well-structured, form-factor.
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Proper noun, singular
structured, Forums, Territories, Languages, skills, patterns, matters, requirements.
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Noun, singular or mass
officielle.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
ceremonial, formalised, formalistic, solemn, formal-sector.
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Noun, singular or mass
formality, formalization, solemn.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Formal:
n.
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event
dance.
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