Formal

['fɔːm(ə)l] or ['fɔrml]

解释:

(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' .

(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' .

(adj.) logically deductive; 'formal proof' .

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

杰夫编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) See Methylal.

(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.

(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.

(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.

(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.

(a.) Dependent in form; conventional.

(a.) Sound; normal.

编辑:波西亚

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Express, explicit, positive, in due form, according to established form.[2]. Regular, methodical.[3]. Ceremonious, precise, punctilious, stiff, starch, starched, prim, affectedly exact.[4]. Constitutive, essential.[5]. External, as mere form.

弗洛整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Regular, complete, shapely, sufficient, correct, stately, dignified,ceremonious, pompous, stiff, precise, explicit, exact, affected, methodical

ANT:Irregular, incomplete, informal, inadequate, incorrect, easy, unassuming,unceremonious

手打:瓦内萨