Elegant vs. Formal
Elegantadjective
Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
Elegantadjective
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
Elegantadjective
Fine; doing well.
Elegantadjective
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
Elegantadjective
Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Elegantadjective
refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style;
Elegantadjective
suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Elegantadjective
of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
Elegantadjective
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
Formaladjective
Being in accord with established forms.
Formaladjective
Official.
Formaladjective
Relating to the form or structure of something.
Formaladjective
Relating to formation.
Formaladjective
Ceremonial or traditional.
Formaladjective
Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
Formaladjective
Organized; well-structured and planned.
Formaladjective
(mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
Formalnoun
(uncountable) Formalin.
Formalnoun
An evening gown.
Formalnoun
An event with a formal dress code.
Formalnoun
(programming) A formal parameter.
Formalnoun
See Methylal.
Formaladjective
Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
Formaladjective
Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
Formaladjective
Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
Formaladjective
Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
Formaladjective
Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
Formaladjective
Dependent in form; conventional.
Formaladjective
Sound; normal.
Formaladjective
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress);
Formaladjective
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority;
Formaladjective
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms;
Formaladjective
represented in simplified or symbolic form
Formaladjective
logically deductive;
Formaladjective
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
