formal
/ˈfɔɹ.məl/ 形容词 B1中文： 正式
- In accordance with established forms. · She spoke formal English, without any dialect.
- Official. · I'd like to make a formal complaint.
- Relating to the form or structure of something. · Formal linguistics ignores the vocabulary of languages and focuses solely on their grammar.
- Relating to formation. · The formal stage is a critical part of any child's development.
- Ceremonial or traditional. · Formal wear must be worn at my wedding!
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual. · He's always very formal, and I wish he'd relax a bit.
- Organized; well-structured and planned. · When they became a formal club the rowers built a small boathouse.
- In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous. · Only formal proofs, which derive theorems logically from their given axioms, are considered satisfactory in modern mathematics.· A set of words can be formal cognates only if they can be derived from a common ancestor by regular sound laws.
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His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal.
Bingley, to assure him how happy he would make them, by eating a family dinner with them at any time, without the ceremony of a formal invitation.
Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, “that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time.
When she did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a word of wishing to see me again, and was, in every respect, so altered a creature, that when she went away I was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer.
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