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formal
Part of speech: AdjectiveAccording to custom or established rules; precise; ceremonious; conventional; essential; having the outward shape without the inward reality.
Part of speech: AdverbFormally.
Usage examples "formal":- The exchange of remarks was formal, even forced and awkward. - "The Desired Woman", Will N. Harben.
- He did not seem to think it necessary to ask the usual formal permission. - "The Vultures", Henry Seton Merriman.
- It was no formal compliment when Earl Granville, who followed the President, said, that " the illustrious Prince, following the example of his noble father, and of other members of the Royal Family, not only presided on this occasion with dignity and grace, but had spoken with earnestness and power on this great question." - "Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888", Edward VII.