formal - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a gown for evening wear

Synonyms

• dinner dress
• dinner gown
• evening gown
• formal

More generic

• evening clothes
• evening dress
• eveningwear
• formalwear
• gown

Noun

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

Synonyms

• ball
• formal

More generic

• dance

More specific

• cotilion
• cotillion
• fancy-dress ball
• masked ball
• masquerade ball
• prom
• promenade

Adjective

refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

Synonyms

• courtly
• formal
• stately

Related

• dignified

Adjective

being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

Synonyms

• formal

Related

• black-tie
• buckram
• ceremonial
• ceremonious
• conventional
• dress
• form-only
• full-dress
• nominal
• perfunctory
• positive
• prescribed
• pro forma
• semi-formal
• semiformal
• starchy
• stiff
• titular
• white-tie

Opposite / Antonyms

• informal

Also See

• conventional
• formal

Adjective

(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

Synonyms

• formal

Related

• literary

Opposite / Antonyms

• informal

Also See

• formal
• rhetorical

Adjective

logically deductive

Synonyms

• formal

Related

• logical

Adjective

characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

Synonyms

• formal

Related

• official

Adjective

represented in simplified or symbolic form

Synonyms

• conventional
• formal
• schematic

Related

• nonrepresentational

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