音标：['fɒ:mәl] ；柯林斯词典等级：4 级；牛津三千核心词汇；

a. 正式的, 形式的, 礼仪的, 拘于礼节的, 拘谨的
n. 正式的社交活动

a. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
s. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
a. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
s. logically deductive

词型变化：名词复数形式 : formals
考试类型：[四级/六级/考研/托福/IELTS]

词性分布：

形容词100%

formal的用法和样例：

例句

用作形容词(adj.)

At the formal party I felt very awkward and out of place.在正式的舞会上，我感到局促不安，很不自在。
This job doesn't require any formal training.这种工作不需要任何正规训练。
There is only a formal resemblance between the two systems; they are in fact radically different.这两种体系只是在表面上有某种相似之处，其实根本不同。
The writer made a formal denial of the hearsay.这位作家公开否认了这一传闻。
He is very formal with everyone and he never joins in a laugh.他对任何人都很拘谨,从不跟人说笑。
They are very formal in their business transactions.他们的商务议事很有条理。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)

用作定语～+ n.

You must wear formal dress.你必须穿礼服。
Sometimes formal English and informal English must be carefully distinguished.有时候正式英语与非正式英语要十分小心地加以区分。
They have much formal school training.他们接受了许多正规的学校教育。
He paid a formal call on the American ambassador, in return of the ambassador's formal visit earlier in the year.他正式拜访了美国大使,作为对美国大使今年早些时候访问的回访。
There's only a formal likeness between the two brothers.这两兄弟仅外表相似。

用作表语S+be+～

Business letters must always be formal.商务信件必须很正式。
The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.这剧本是那个时期的典型作品,风格拘谨刻板。

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

formal call正式的拜访
formal dress礼服
formal party正式的欢迎会
formal logic形式逻辑
formal resemblance形式上的相似
formal schooling正规学校教育
formal training正规训练
formal written English正式的书面英语

副词+～

merely formal完全流于形式的

～+介词

formal with对…拘谨的
formal with one's colleagues和同事们在一起很拘谨

经典引文

Young ladies..wear short formals, and old ladies wear floor-length evening dresses.
出自：M. Beadle
She looked sufficiently virginal to be attending her first formal.
出自：A. York
Deceit is the formal, constituent reason of hypocrisy.
出自：R. South

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