Thesaurus

Synonyms for Formal include:

abstract, abstractionist, accepted, analytic, analytical, anapaestic, anapestic, authorised, authoritative, authorized, black-tie, bombastic, buckram, ceremonial, ceremonious, coherent, composed, consistent, conventional, courtly, customary, declamatory, dianoetic, dignified, discursive, distinguished, dress, elegant, embellished, empurpled, ex officio, fancy, figurative, flowery, forensic, form-only, formal, formalised, formalized, formulaic, full-dress, geometric, geometrical, grand, grandiloquent, hieratic, imposing, large, literary, logical, magisterial, magniloquent, nominal, nonfigurative, nonliteral, nonobjective, nonrepresentational, official, oratorical, ordered, orderly, ornate, orotund, over-embellished, perfunctory, poetic, poetical, positive, prescribed, pro forma, protogeometric, purple, ratiocinative, rational, reasonable, received, rhetorical, schematic, semi-formal, semiabstract, semiformal, semiofficial, sensible, starchy, stately, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stylistic, synthetic, synthetical, tall, titular, tumid, turgid, unoriginal, white-tie

formal is a ADJ.

ball, dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown, formal

formal is a NOUN.