Adjective
1. formal
2. ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, dress, full-dress, form-only, full-dress, dress, nominal, titular, positive, prescribed, semiformal, semi-formal, black-tie, starchy, stiff, buckram, white-tie, pro forma, perfunctory, conventional, official
3. formal
4. literary, rhetorical, conventional
5. schematic, nonrepresentational, logical
6. courtly
7. elegant, stately, dignified
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