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formal adjectiv
1. formal; teoretic, abstract.
2. formal, convenţional, oficial.
3. superficial, exterior;
formal resemblance asemănare superficială.
4. exact, riguros, strict, corect, regulat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
'Mr. Knightley.'—You always called me, 'Mr. Knightley;' and, from habit, it has not so very formal a sound.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
"To-morrow evening, to meet a few friends: no formal party."
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
She saw instantly that her cousin's manners were not altered by his marriage; his formal civility was just what it had been, and he detained her some minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her family.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Mercury goes direct on November 20, but allow as many days as possible before signing important contracts. (I would never want you to sign during Mercury retrograde.) I particularly like the day Mercury, which rules all formal agreements, will be in harmony with your ruler Saturn, allowing you to set up an alliance on November 29 that could last long, or even forever.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
Let Miss Eyre be seated, said he: and there was something in the forced stiff bow, in the impatient yet formal tone, which seemed further to express, What the deuce is it to me whether Miss Eyre be there or not?
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
A formal association between entities.
(Affiliation, NCI Thesaurus)
After much thinking, she could determine on nothing better, than Harriet's returning the visit; but in a way that, if they had understanding, should convince them that it was to be only a formal acquaintance.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
I am not now to learn, replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Though he had not nerves for coming away with us, and setting off again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make his way over to Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)