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formal

adj. 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"

formal

adj. (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"

formal

adj. logically deductive; "formal proof"

formal

adj. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"

cool

adj. (reserved)

courtly, elegant, stately

adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

schematic, conventional

adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form

customary

adj. in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

stodgy, stuffy

adj. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"

standard

adj. established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"

denotative, explicit

adj. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term

sound, legal

adj. having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"

true, rightful, lawful

adj. having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"

legal

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

lawful

adj. conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"

artificial, contrived, stilted

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

gallant, chivalrous, knightly

adj. being attentive to women like an ideal knight

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

gentlemanlike, gentlemanly

adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"

conventional

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

formal

adj. (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"

formal

adj. 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"

rhetorical

adj. concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"

discursive, dianoetic

adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

ratiocinative

adj. based on exact thinking; "one's ratiocinative powers"

rational

adj. consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"

authorized, authoritative

adj. sanctioned by established authority; "an authoritative communique"; "the authorized biography"

ex-officio

adj. by virtue of an office or position; "the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board"

formalized

adj. given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures

semiofficial

adj. having some official authority or sanction

unapproachable, distant, aloof, offish

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

diffident

adj. showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"

indrawn, withdrawn

adj. tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"

distinguished, imposing, magisterial

adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"

abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective

adj. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"

geometric, geometrical

adj. characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"

protogeometric

adj. characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece

semiabstract

adj. characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter

informal

adj. not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"

casual, free-and-easy

adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"

knockabout, casual, everyday

adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

informal

adj. used of spoken and written language

colloquial, conversational

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

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