formal
fawr muhl
- n a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- n a gown for evening wear
- a 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 - s characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
formal duties - a (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 - s represented in simplified or symbolic form
- s logically deductive
formal proof - s refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- All formal systems at least ones that are powerful enough to be of interest turn out to be incomplete because they are able to express statements that say of themselves .
- So-called formal systems were devised (the prime example being Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica) in which theorems, following strict rules of inference, sprout from .
- Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and .