formal 音标拼音: [f'ɔrməl]
a . 正式的,形式的,礼仪的
n . 正式的社交活动
正式的,形式的,礼仪的正式的社交活动
formal 形式
formal 形式 正式
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 [
synonym :
{
conventional }, {
formal }, {
schematic }]
5 :
logically deductive ; "
formal proof "
6 :
refined or imposing in manner or appearance ;
befitting a royal court ; "
a courtly gentleman " [
synonym : {
courtly }, {
formal },
{
stately }]
n 1 :
a lavish dance requiring formal attire [
synonym : {
ball },
{
formal }]
2 :
a gown for evening wear [
synonym : {
dinner dress }, {
dinner gown },
{
formal }, {
evening gown }]
Formal \
For "
mal \ (
f [^
o ]
r "
mal ),
n . [
L .
formic alcohol .] (
Chem .)
See {
Methylal }.
Formal \
Form "
al \ (
f [^
o ]
rm "
al ),
a . [
L .
formalis :
cf .
F .
formel .]
1 .
Belonging to the form ,
shape ,
frame ,
external appearance ,
or organization of a thing .
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2 .
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 .
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Of [
the sounds represented by ]
letters ,
the material part is breath and voice ;
the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech .
--
Holder .
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3 .
Done in due form ,
or with solemnity ;
according to regular method ;
not incidental ,
sudden or irregular ;
express ;
as ,
he gave his formal consent .
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His obscure funeral . . .
No noble rite nor formal ostentation . --
Shak .
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4 .
Devoted to ,
or done in accordance with ,
forms or rules ;
punctilious ;
regular ;
orderly ;
methodical ;
of a prescribed form ;
exact ;
prim ;
stiff ;
ceremonious ;
as ,
a man formal in his dress ,
his gait ,
his conversation .
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A cold -
looking ,
formal garden ,
cut into angles and rhomboids . --
W .
Irwing .
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She took off the formal cap that confined her hair .
--
Hawthorne .
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5 .
Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence ;
external ;
as ,
formal duty ;
formal worship ;
formal courtesy ,
etc .
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6 .
Dependent in form ;
conventional .
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Still in constraint your suffering sex remains ,
Or bound in formal or in real chains . --
Pope .
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7 .
Sound ;
normal . [
Obs .]
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To make of him a formal man again . --
Shak .
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{
Formal cause }.
See under {
Cause }.
Syn :
Precise ;
punctilious ;
stiff ;
starched ;
affected ;
ritual ;
ceremonial ;
external ;
outward .
Usage : {
Formal }, {
Ceremonious }.
When applied to things ,
these words usually denote a mere accordance with the rules of form or ceremony ;
as ,
to make a formal call ;
to take a ceremonious leave .
When applied to a person or his manners ,
they are used in a bad sense ;
a person being called formal who shapes himself too much by some pattern or set form ,
and ceremonious when he lays too much stress on the conventional laws of social intercourse .
Formal manners render a man stiff or ridiculous ;
a ceremonious carriage puts a stop to the ease and freedom of social intercourse .
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Methylal \
Meth "
yl *
al \,
n . [
Methylene alcohol .] (
Chem .)
A light ,
volatile liquid , {
H2C (
OCH3 )
2 },
regarded as a complex ether ,
and having a pleasant ethereal odor .
It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol .
Called also {
formal }.
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253 Moby Thesaurus words for "
formal ":
High -
Church ,
Latinate ,
accepted ,
acknowledged ,
adjectival ,
admitted ,
adverbial ,
anatomic ,
approved ,
architectonic ,
architectural ,
arranged ,
attributive ,
authorized ,
awkward ,
baccalaureate service ,
baptismal ,
being done ,
bloated ,
bombastic ,
businesslike ,
byname ,
celebration ,
ceremonial ,
ceremonious ,
ceremony ,
chivalric ,
chivalrous ,
cognominal ,
comme il faut ,
commencement ,
conditional ,
confining ,
conformable ,
conjunctive ,
constructional ,
conventional ,
conventionalized ,
convocation ,
copulative ,
correct ,
courtly ,
cramped ,
cumbrous ,
customary ,
de rigueur ,
decent ,
decorous ,
definite ,
demure ,
dignified ,
diminutive ,
distant ,
dress uniform ,
earnest ,
edificial ,
elephantine ,
empty formality ,
epithetic ,
established ,
eucharistic ,
evening dress ,
exact ,
exacting ,
exercise ,
exercises ,
explicit ,
express ,
extrinsic ,
fixed ,
flatulent ,
forced ,
formal dress ,
formalist ,
formalistic ,
formality ,
formalized ,
formational ,
formative ,
formulaic ,
formular ,
formulary ,
frowning ,
full dress ,
function ,
functional ,
gallant ,
gassy ,
glossematic ,
graduation ,
graduation exercises ,
grammatic ,
grandiloquent ,
grave ,
grim ,
grim -
faced ,
grim -
visaged ,
guinde ,
habitual ,
halting ,
harmonious ,
heavy ,
honorific ,
hypocoristic ,
impersonal ,
in hand ,
in name only ,
inaugural ,
inauguration ,
inflated ,
inflexible ,
initiation ,
inkhorn ,
intransitive ,
knightly ,
labored ,
lawful ,
leaden ,
legal ,
legalistic ,
limited ,
linking ,
liturgic ,
liturgistic ,
liturgy ,
long -
faced ,
lumbering ,
meet ,
methodical ,
modal ,
morphological ,
morphotic ,
mummery ,
nominal ,
nominative ,
normal ,
observance ,
office ,
official ,
old -
fashioned ,
old -
world ,
ordered ,
orderly ,
organic ,
organismal ,
orthodox ,
ostensible ,
outward ,
participial ,
paschal ,
pedantic ,
performance ,
plastic ,
pompous ,
ponderous ,
pontifical ,
postpositional ,
precise ,
prepositional ,
prescribed ,
pretended ,
prim ,
pro forma ,
professed ,
pronominal ,
proper ,
punctilious ,
purported ,
quasi ,
received ,
recognized ,
regalia ,
regular ,
religious ceremony ,
reserved ,
right ,
rigid ,
rite ,
rite de passage ,
rite of passage ,
ritual ,
ritualistic ,
routine ,
sacramental ,
sacramentarian ,
sedate ,
seemly ,
self -
called ,
self -
christened ,
self -
important ,
self -
styled ,
serious ,
service ,
sesquipedalian ,
set ,
so -
called ,
sober ,
sober -
minded ,
sobersided ,
soi -
disant ,
solemn ,
solemnity ,
solemnization ,
somber ,
square ,
staid ,
standard ,
starched ,
stately ,
steady ,
stiff ,
stilted ,
stone -
faced ,
straight ,
straight -
faced ,
strait -
laced ,
straitened ,
strict ,
structural ,
stuffy ,
stylized ,
substantive ,
substructural ,
superficial ,
superstructural ,
supposed ,
surface ,
swollen ,
symmetrical ,
syntactic ,
systematic ,
tagmemic ,
tails ,
tectonic ,
textural ,
thoughtful ,
titular ,
traditional ,
transitive ,
tumid ,
turgid ,
tuxedo ,
unbending ,
unchanging ,
uniform ,
unsmiling ,
unwieldy ,
usual ,
verbal ,
weighty ,
well -
ordered ,
well -
regulated ,
would -
be
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