Definitions For Formal

noun

• A gown for evening wear
• A lavish dance requiring formal attire

adjective

• Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
• Logically deductive
• Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
• Represented in simplified or symbolic form

adjective

• Being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

verb

• A social gathering (such as a dance) that requires formal dress and manners : a formal event