Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown, formal
Definition: a gown for evening wear
Similar words: formalwear, evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear
Definition: attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening
Similar words: gown
Definition: a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
Definition: a lavish dance requiring formal attire
Similar words: dance
Definition: a party for social dancing
Synonyms: courtly, stately, formal
Definition: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
Usage: a courtly gentleman
Similar words: dignified
Definition: having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance
Usage: her dignified demeanor; the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman
Synonyms: formal
Definition: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
Usage: pay one's formal respects; formal dress; a formal ball; the requirement was only formal and often ignored; a formal education
Similar words: ceremonial
Definition: marked by pomp or ceremony or formality
Usage: a ceremonial occasion; ceremonial garb
Similar words: ceremonious, conventional
Definition: rigidly formal or bound by convention
Usage: their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
Similar words: dress, full-dress
Definition: (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
Usage: a dress dinner; a full-dress ceremony
Similar words: form-only
Definition: being a matter of form only; lacking substance
Usage: a form-only requirement that is usually ignored
Similar words: full-dress, dress
Definition: suitable for formal occasions
Usage: formal wear; a full-dress uniform; dress shoes
Similar words: titular, nominal
Definition: existing in name only
Usage: the nominal (or titular) head of his party
Similar words: prescribed, positive
Definition: formally laid down or imposed
Usage: positive laws
Similar words: pro forma, perfunctory
Definition: as a formality only
Usage: a one-candidate pro forma election
Similar words: semi-formal, semiformal, black-tie
Definition: moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
Usage: he wore semiformal attire; a black-tie dinner
Similar words: buckram, starchy, stiff
Definition: rigidly formal
Usage: a starchy manner; the letter was stiff and formal; his prose has a buckram quality
Similar words: white-tie
Definition: requiring white ties and tailcoats for men
Usage: a white-tie occasion
Synonyms: formal
Definition: (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
Usage: the paper was written in formal English
Similar words: literary
Definition: appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
Usage: when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style
Synonyms: formal
Definition: logically deductive
Usage: formal proof
Similar words: logical
Definition: capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
Usage: a logical mind
Synonyms: formal
Definition: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
Usage: formal duties; an official banquet
Similar words: official
Definition: having official authority or sanction
Usage: official permission; an official representative
Synonyms: schematic, formal, conventional
Definition: represented in simplified or symbolic form
Similar words: nonrepresentational
Definition: of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature