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adjective. Relating to or involving outward form or structure, often in contrast to content or meaning.

adjective. Being or relating to essential form or constitution.

adjective. Following or being in accord with accepted or prescribed forms, conventions, or regulations.

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adjective. Characterized by strict or meticulous observation of forms; methodical.

adjective. Stiffly ceremonious.

adjective. Characterized by technical or polysyllabic vocabulary, complex sentence structure, and explicit transitions; not colloquial or informal.

adjective. Having the outward appearance but lacking in substance.

noun. Something, such as a gown or social affair, that is formal in nature.

noun. A trade-name for formaldehyde.

Implicit; not active; latent; virtual.

According to form, rule, or established order; according to the rules of law or custom; systematic; regular; legal.

Characterized by or made or done in strict or undue conformity to legal or conventional rules; notably conventional.

Observing or requiring strict observance of the rules of law, custom, or etiquette; strictly ceremonious; precise: exact to affectation; punctilious.

Regular or methodical in action.

Having conformity with the rules of art; scholastic; theoretical; also, rhetorical; academical; expressed in artificial language.

Relating to form merely, not to the substance or matter; having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; outward: as, a formal defect; formal duty; formal worship.

Embodied in a form; personified. The allusion in the extract is to the character of the Vice who, under many aliases, was an attendant on the Devil in the old moralities. See iniquity and vice.

Pertaining to or regarding the shape and appearance of a living being; characteristic; proper; sane.

Pertaining to form, in sense 8, especially in the Aristotelian use, opposed to materiȧl; essential; express. See phrases below.

Pertaining to those elements of cognition which according to Kant have their origin in the nature of the mind itself; universal and necessary.

noun. See methylal.

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

adjective. 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.

adjective. Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express.

adjective. Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious.

adjective. Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external

adjective. Dependent in form; conventional.

adjective. Sound; normal.

adjective. See under Cause.

adjective. being in accord with established forms

adjective. official

adjective. relating to the form or structure of something

adjective. ceremonial

adjective. organized; well-structured and planned

noun. formalin

noun. an evening gown

noun. an event with a formal dress code

adjective. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

adjective. logically deductive

noun. a gown for evening wear

adjective. represented in simplified or symbolic form

noun. a lavish dance requiring formal attire

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

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

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

"As a formal theory (in Husserl's sense of ˜formal™, i.e., as opposed to ˜material™) mereology is simply an attempt to lay down the general principles underlying the relationships between an entity and its constituent parts, whatever the nature of the entity, just as set theory is an attempt to lay down the principles underlying the relationships between a set and its members."

informal  

definite  formal abduction  formal abstraction  formal acceptation  formal appellation  

black-tie  buckram  ceremonial  ceremonious  conventional  

form  

formalism  formalist  formality  formalize  

evening clothes  evening dress  eveningwear  formalwear  gown  

Normal  abnormal  informal  normal  paranormal  

conventional  proper  simple  solemn  

High-Church  Latinate  accepted  acknowledged  adjectival  

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