01045216-a ✪ '(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms';
 
Chinese (simplified) 备选翻译 , 正式 , 正式+的
English formal 2 ( ⇔ )
Indonesian formal
Japanese 堅苦しい , 堅苦しげ , 堅い
Definitions
English
(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
Japanese
（口語や文語について）略式、短縮、口語体を用いず、正確性に対する伝統的な標準に忠実であるさま
― 新聞は改まった英語で書かれた
Relations
See also: formal rhetorical
Attributes: formality
Similar to: literary
Antonym: informal
Semantic Field: alla
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SentiWN: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.25) MLSentiCon: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.12)

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