formal
英 ['f??m(?)l]
美['f?rml]
- adj. 正式的；拘謹(jǐn)?shù)模挥袟l理的
- n. 正式的社交活動；夜禮服
- n. (Formal)人名；(法)福馬爾
英英釋意
- 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"
