Formal
['fɔːm(ə)l] or ['fɔrml]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
杰夫編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:波西亚
同義詞及近義詞:
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
同義詞及反義詞:
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
例句/造句/用法:
- But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The other clauses contained in that document were of a formal kind, and need not be recited here. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Only very slowly did the human mind develop methods of indicating action and relationship in a formal manner. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Manners would have been producing the bottle and having a formal drink. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She hated calls of the formal sort, and never made any till Amy compelled her with a bargain, bribe, or promise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Then sighed; and saying, 'I knew you would like it,' he turned away, and never spoke to her again until he bid her a formal 'good night. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Though not a garrulous race, the Tharks are extremely formal, and their ways lend themselves amazingly to dignified and courtly manners. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I have the honour to be, GEORGE A little formal, observes the elder brother, refolding it with a puzzled face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Voting is a formal method of registering consent. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It makes instruction and learning formal, mechanical, constrained. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But permit me to say, my dear Doctor, that this objection is rather formal than substantial. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We shall be sitting down to eat in a minute, and it's a formal occasion, darling, isn't it? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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