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formal

英 ['fɔːm(ə)l]美['fɔrml]
  • adj. 正式的;拘谨的;有条理的
  • n. 正式的社交活动;夜礼服
  • n. (Formal)人名;(法)福马尔

英英释意


1. 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"
2. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority;
"formal duties"
"an official banquet"
3. (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"
4. represented in simplified or symbolic form
5. logically deductive;
"formal proof"
6. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
"a courtly gentleman"
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