English to English
adjective
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
source: WordNet 3.0
- a gown for evening wear
source: WordNet 3.0
- See Methylal.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
Formal duties.
An official banquet.
source: WordNet 3.0
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
source: WordNet 3.0
- logically deductive
Formal proof.
source: WordNet 3.0
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
A courtly gentleman.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adj
- [fórmal] Pormál
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
