formal


Meanings

  • a lavish dance requiring formal attire
  • a gown for evening wear
  • 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"
  • characteristic of or befitting a person in authority;
    • "formal duties"
  • (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"
  • represented in simplified or symbolic form
  • logically deductive;
    • "formal proof"
  • refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
  • FORMAL n pl. -S a social event that requires evening dress


Scrabble Score: 11

formal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

formal is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

formal is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 13

formal is a valid Words With Friends word