• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of Formal dress); "pay one''s Formal respects"; "Formal dress"; "a Formal ball"; "the requirement was only Formal and often ignored"; "a Formal education"
• (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"
• logically deductive; "Formal proof"
• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "Formal duties"; "an official banquet"
• represented in simplified or symbolic form

'Formal' in other languages