Crossword-Solution: FORMAL 6 letters, 124 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Formal n. See Methylal.
Formal a. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance,
or organization of a thing.
Formal a. 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.
Formal a. Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular
method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his
formal consent.
Formal a. Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules;
punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact;
prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his
conversation.
Formal a. Having the form or appearance without the substance or
essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy,
etc.
Formal a. Dependent in form; conventional.
Formal a. Sound; normal.

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FORMAL anagram FROMLA

We have 124 clues for the answer “FORMAL”

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Calling for tails, maybe 1 answer
Dress-up affair 1 answer
Dressy ball 1 answer
Dressy dance 1 answer
Evening dress: Colloq. 1 answer
In writing, say 1 answer
Like a black-tie wedding 1 answer
Like a prom 1 answer
Like a tuxedo or ball gown 1 answer
Like a white-tie affair 1 answer
Like most proms 1 answer
Like state dinners 1 answer
Like tailcoats 1 answer
Officially recognised 1 answer
Prim; stiff. 1 answer
Primly stiff 1 answer
Required by convention 1 answer
Requiring a tux 1 answer
SCHOOL end-of-year dance 1 answer
Stiffly ceremonious 1 answer
VALID in virtue of its form 1 answer
White-tie event 1 answer
of or characterized by conventions of behaviour 1 answer
Lavish dance 2 answers
outward form 2 answers
Not casual 2 answers
CONVENTION requirement 2 answers
According to protocol. 3 answers
gentlemanlike 3 answers
ritualistic 3 answers
in form 3 answers
in a state of 4 answers
Kind of gown 4 answers
Evening dress 4 answers
School Dance 5 answers
CEREMONIAL dance 6 answers
Ball, e.g. 6 answers
prissy 6 answers
starchy 7 answers
Foppish. 8 answers
Festal 10 answers
CHARACTERISTIC OF OR BEFITTING A PERSON IN AUTHORITY 11 answers
Recognised 11 answers
ceremonious 12 answers
Dressy 13 answers
perfunctory 14 answers
Strait-laced 15 answers
Formative 15 answers
Nominal 17 answers
Kind of dance. 22 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with FORMAL (5)

Aid is considered to have been committed when agreements are initialed by the parties involved and constitute a formal declaration of intent.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The formal Request For Discussion (RFD) should be posted to news.announce.newgroups, along with any other groups or mailing lists at all related to the proposed topic.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
When talking about the jargon there is therefore no convenient way to distinguish what a *linguist* would call hackers' jargon --- the formal vocabulary they learn from textbooks, technical papers, and manuals.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She had been taught according to the old Stuttgart method; stiff back, stiff elbows, a very formal position of the hands.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with FORMAL (3)

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake
The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouched with beauty and peace; and now when I looked at my Crevelli and pondered on the rose in the hand of the Virgin, wherein the form was so delicate and precise that it seemed more like a thought than a flower, or at the grey dawn and rapturous faces of my Francesca, I knew all a Christian's…
W. B. Yeats Rosa Alchemica
A muffled voice startled them both. her?" They pulled away. In the ballroom windows, noses and hands pressed against the glass, were the girls. They stood among the prickly rosebushes, beaming wicked little grins. Delphinium and Eve whispered and giggled to each other; Bramble wore a magnificent grin on her face and a spark of light in her yellow-green eyes. Another figure stood among them. This one had his arms folded across his chest, stiff and firm and formal...... Yet he did not look displeased.
Heather Dixon Entwined
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).