- done in accordance with rules of convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important situation or occasion:
- (of a person or their manner) prim or stiff:
- of or denoting a style of writing or public speaking characterized by more elaborate grammatical structures and more conservative and technical vocabulary.
- (especially of a house or garden) arranged in a regular, classical, and symmetrical manner.
- officially sanctioned or recognized:
- having a conventionally recognized form, structure, or set of rules:
- of or concerned with outward form or appearance, especially as distinct from content or matter:
- having the form or appearance without the spirit:
- relating to linguistic or logical form as opposed to function or meaning.