Synonyms of the word

formal

• adj. Being in accord with established forms.
• adj. Official.
• adj. Relating to the form or structure of something.
• adj. Relating to formation.
• adj. Ceremonial or traditional.
• adj. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
• adj. Organized; well-structured and planned.
• adj. (mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to…
• n. Formalin.
• n. An evening gown.
• n. An event with a formal dress code.

ball

• n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
• n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
• n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
• n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
• v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
• v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
• v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
• interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
• n. A formal dance.
• n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

black-tie

• adj. Moderately formal; usually requiring a dinner jacket (tuxedo) for men.

buckram

• n. A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form…
• v. (transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
• n. A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

ceremonial

• adj. Of, relating to, or used in a ceremony; ritual or formal.
• adj. (archaic) Observant of forms; ceremonious.
• n. A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual.

ceremonious

• adj. Fond of ceremony, ritual or strict etiquette; punctilious.
• adj. Characterized by ceremony or rigid formality.

conventional

• adj. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
• adj. Ordinary, commonplace.
• adj. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
• n. (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or…

courtly

• adj. Suitable for a royal court; refined, dignified.
• adj. Obsequious, flattering.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

dignified

• adj. respectable.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dignify.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

eveningwear

• n. clothes suitable for a formal occasion in the evening.

formal

• adj. Being in accord with established forms.
• adj. Official.
• adj. Relating to the form or structure of something.
• adj. Relating to formation.
• adj. Ceremonial or traditional.
• adj. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
• adj. Organized; well-structured and planned.
• adj. (mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to…
• n. Formalin.
• n. An evening gown.
• n. An event with a formal dress code.

formalwear

• n. Clothing suited to formal occasions.

gown

• n. A loose, flowing upper garment.
• n. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
• n. The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers,…
• n. (by metonymy) The university community.
• n. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
• n. Any sort of dress or garb.
• n. The robe worn by a surgeon.
• v. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

literary

• adj. Relating to literature.
• adj. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
• adj. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
• adj. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
• adj. Bookish.

logical

• adj. (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.
• adj. Reasonable.
• adj. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
• adj. (computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.

nominal

• adj. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
• adj. Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
• adj. Existing in name only.
• adj. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
• adj. Insignificantly small; trifling.
• adj. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
• adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate,…
• adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding…
• adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
• adj. (engineering) According to plan or design; normal.
• adj. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.
• adj. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
• n. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase.
• n. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.
• n. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also wikipedia).

nonrepresentational

• adj. Not representational.
• adj. (art) That does not represent a physical object realistically.

official

• adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
• adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue…
• adj. Approved by authority; authorized.
• adj. sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
• adj. Discharging an office or function.
• adj. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
• adj. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the…
• adj. True, real, beyond doubt.
• n. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
• n. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

perfunctory

• adj. Done merely to discharge a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and…

positive

• adj. Not negative or neutral.
• adj. (law) Formally laid down.
• adj. Stated definitively and without qualification.
• adj. Fully assured in opinion.
• adj. (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
• adj. Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
• adj. Overconfident, dogmatic.
• adj. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
• adj. (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
• adj. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative,…
• adj. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
• adj. Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their…
• adj. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
• adj. (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
• adj. Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
• adj. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
• adj. Optimistic.
• adj. (chemistry) electropositive.
• adj. (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
• adj. (slang) HIV positive.
• adj. (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought',…
• n. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
• n. A favourable point or characteristic.
• n. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
• n. (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
• n. (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
• n. (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
• n. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• n. A positive result of a test.

prescribed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of prescribe.

rhetorical

• adj. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
• adj. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.

schematic

• adj. represented simply.
• adj. sketchy, incomplete.
• adj. relating to a schema.
• n. A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.

semiformal

• adj. Somewhat formal.

starchy

• adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
• adj. Containing starch.
• adj. Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
• adj. Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

stately

• adj. (of people) regal, dignified; worthy of respect.
• adj. (of movement) dignified; deliberate, unhurried.
• adj. Imposing; grand, impressive.
• adv. In a stately manner.

stiff

• adj. (of an object) Rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
• adj. (figuratively, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
• adj. (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
• adj. (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
• adj. (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
• adj. Potent.
• adj. Dead, deceased.
• adj. (of a penis) Erect.
• adj. (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their…
• adj. (mathematics) Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless…
• n. An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff…
• n. A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
• n. (slang) A cadaver, a dead person.
• n. (US) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
• n. (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
• v. To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
• v. to cheat someone.
• v. to tip ungenerously.

titular

• adj. Of, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title.
• adj. Existing in name only; nominal.
• adj. Named or referred to in the title.
• n. One who holds a title.

white-tie

• adj. Of an event: very formal; usually requiring a tailcoat for men.