253 Moby Thesaurus words for "formal":
High-Church, Latinate, accepted, acknowledged, adjectival,
admitted, adverbial, anatomic, approved, architectonic,
architectural, arranged, attributive, authorized, awkward,
baccalaureate service, baptismal, being done, bloated, bombastic,
businesslike, byname, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonious,
ceremony, chivalric, chivalrous, cognominal, comme il faut,
commencement, conditional, confining, conformable, conjunctive,
constructional, conventional, conventionalized, convocation,
copulative, correct, courtly, cramped, cumbrous, customary,
de rigueur, decent, decorous, definite, demure, dignified,
diminutive, distant, dress uniform, earnest, edificial,
elephantine, empty formality, epithetic, established, eucharistic,
evening dress, exact, exacting, exercise, exercises, explicit,
express, extrinsic, fixed, flatulent, forced, formal dress,
formalist, formalistic, formality, formalized, formational,
formative, formulaic, formular, formulary, frowning, full dress,
function, functional, gallant, gassy, glossematic, graduation,
graduation exercises, grammatic, grandiloquent, grave, grim,
grim-faced, grim-visaged, guinde, habitual, halting, harmonious,
heavy, honorific, hypocoristic, impersonal, in hand, in name only,
inaugural, inauguration, inflated, inflexible, initiation, inkhorn,
intransitive, knightly, labored, lawful, leaden, legal, legalistic,
limited, linking, liturgic, liturgistic, liturgy, long-faced,
lumbering, meet, methodical, modal, morphological, morphotic,
mummery, nominal, nominative, normal, observance, office, official,
old-fashioned, old-world, ordered, orderly, organic, organismal,
orthodox, ostensible, outward, participial, paschal, pedantic,
performance, plastic, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
postpositional, precise, prepositional, prescribed, pretended,
prim, pro forma, professed, pronominal, proper, punctilious,
purported, quasi, received, recognized, regalia, regular,
religious ceremony, reserved, right, rigid, rite, rite de passage,
rite of passage, ritual, ritualistic, routine, sacramental,
sacramentarian, sedate, seemly, self-called, self-christened,
self-important, self-styled, serious, service, sesquipedalian, set,
so-called, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, soi-disant, solemn,
solemnity, solemnization, somber, square, staid, standard,
starched, stately, steady, stiff, stilted, stone-faced, straight,
straight-faced, strait-laced, straitened, strict, structural,
stuffy, stylized, substantive, substructural, superficial,
superstructural, supposed, surface, swollen, symmetrical,
syntactic, systematic, tagmemic, tails, tectonic, textural,
thoughtful, titular, traditional, transitive, tumid, turgid,
tuxedo, unbending, unchanging, uniform, unsmiling, unwieldy, usual,
verbal, weighty, well-ordered, well-regulated, would-be
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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