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How to pronounce formal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ball
Type of dance
Has types prom, fancy-dress ball, masquerade ball, cotillion, masked ball, cotilion, promenade
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Synonyms conventional, schematic
Type Words
Synonyms dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown
Type of gown, formalwear, evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear
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Synonyms courtly, stately
Derivation formalness
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Derivation formality, formalness


pay one's formal respects.
formal dress.
a formal ball.
the requirement was only formal and often ignored.
a formal education.
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Derivation formality


formal duties.
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formal proof.
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the paper was written in formal English.

Examples of formal

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I've never had a formal diagnosis, and I want to know if there is a test for it.
From the abcnews.go.com
Reed invited the board to have a formal discussion with business major students.
From the news-journalonline.com
Formal fee notices would go out in the latter half of next year, the board said.
From the bloomberg.com
The formal living room includes a masonry gas fireplace and plantation shutters.
From the washingtontimes.com
There was a touch of Scotland in the air as one man arrived in full formal kilt.
From the freep.com
However, that requires a high degree of documentation and very formal processes.
From the businessweek.com
The report is the first-ever formal IMF assessment of the U.S. financial sector.
From the kansas.com
The formal dining and living rooms have French doors leading to a covered patio.
From the latimes.com
Of course, I have to concede that the photographers have a better formal record.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • Ball: a lavish dance requiring formal attire
  • Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
  • Dinner dress: a gown for evening wear
  • (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"
  • Conventional: represented in simplified or symbolic form
  • Formal Hall or Formal Meal is the traditional meal held at some of the older universities in the United Kingdom at which students dress in formal attire and often gowns to dine. ...
  • A formality is an established procedure or set of specific behaviors and utterances, conceptually similar to a ritual although typically secular and less involved. ...
  • Formalin; being in accord with established forms; official; relating to the form or structure of something; ceremonial; Organized; well-structured and planned