formal

oficial, formal

Organizado, reconocido o registrado de manera oficial.

En inglés sencillo: Officially arranged, recognized, or recorded.

• She made a formal complaint.
• He has no formal training in music.
• We are waiting for formal approval.

Sinónimos: official

Antónimos: unofficial

Expresiones frecuentes: formal education, formal complaint, formal approval

formal

Que sigue las normas de cortesía, a menudo con un comportamiento serio o ropa elegante.

En inglés sencillo: Following polite social rules, often with serious behaviour or special clothes.

• You need formal clothes for dinner.
• His manner was polite and formal.
• Is the wedding very formal?

Sinónimos: ceremonious

Antónimos: casual, informal

Expresiones frecuentes: formal dress, formal dinner, formal occasion

formal

Que respeta las reglas aceptadas o las formas tradicionales de hablar, escribir o actuar.

En inglés sencillo: Following accepted rules or traditional ways of speaking, writing, or doing things.

• Use formal language in this letter.
• Her essay follows a formal style.
• Formal English avoids many everyday shortened expressions.

Sinónimos: conventional

Antónimos: informal

Expresiones frecuentes: formal English, formal language, formal style

formal

Relacionado con la forma o la organización de algo.

En inglés sencillo: Concerned with how something is organized or shaped.

• We studied the poem’s formal structure.
• Formal analysis considers how the parts fit together.
• The paintings share several formal features.

Sinónimos: structural

Expresiones frecuentes: formal structure, formal analysis, formal features

baile de gala

Fiesta o baile, a menudo para estudiantes, al que se asiste con ropa elegante.

En inglés sencillo: A social event, often for students, where people wear special, smart clothes.

• She wore a blue dress to the formal.
• Our school formal is next Friday.
• They attended several formals together.

Sinónimos: formal dance

Expresiones frecuentes: school formal, attend a formal, the annual formal