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more formal synonyms

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  • book-learned
  • bookish
  • college
  • collegiate
  • erudite
  • intellectual
  • learned
  • pedantic
  • scholarly
  • scholastic
  • studious
  • university
  • OK'd
  • accepted
  • affirmed
  • allowed
  • authorized
  • backed
  • certain
  • chosen
  • endorsed
  • legalized
  • made official
  • passed
  • august
  • conventional
  • imposing
  • liturgical
  • lofty
  • mannered
  • ritualistic
  • solemn
  • stately
  • studied
  • stylized
  • academic
  • approved
  • ceremonial
  • ceremonious
  • confirmed
  • conventional
  • decorous
  • directed
  • explicit
  • express
  • fixed
  • formalistic
  • civil
  • courteous
  • courtly
  • decorous
  • deferential
  • dignified
  • exact
  • grandiose
  • impressive
  • majestic
  • moving
  • precise
  • accepted
  • accustomed
  • chronic
  • deep-rooted
  • deep-seated
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • entrenched
  • firmly established
  • fixed
  • habituated
  • hard-shell
  • hardened
  • accepted
  • accustomed
  • button-down
  • commonplace
  • correct
  • current
  • customary
  • decorous
  • everyday
  • expected
  • fashionable
  • formal
  • au fait
  • becoming
  • befitting
  • ceremonial
  • ceremonious
  • civilized
  • comely
  • comme il faut
  • conforming
  • conventional
  • correct
  • de rigueur
  • aimed
  • assisted
  • conducted
  • controlled
  • counseled
  • focused
  • guided
  • managed
  • orderly
  • organized
  • purposeful
  • sponsored
  • absolute
  • accurate
  • categorical
  • certain
  • clean-cut
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • correct
  • definite
  • definitive
  • direct
  • distinct
  • accurate
  • categorical
  • clean-cut
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • considered
  • definite
  • definitive
  • deliberate
  • designful
  • direct
  • distinct
  • anchored
  • attached
  • established
  • fast
  • firm
  • hitched
  • hooked
  • immobile
  • immotile
  • immovable
  • located
  • locked
  • abstract
  • closet
  • conjectural
  • hypothetical
  • notional
  • speculative
  • theoretical
  • authorized
  • bona fide
  • canonical
  • card-carrying
  • commanded
  • condign
  • constitutional
  • decreed
  • due
  • enacted
  • enforced
  • enjoined
  • acknowledged
  • allowed
  • authorized
  • card-carrying
  • chartered
  • clean
  • condign
  • constitutional
  • contractual
  • decreed
  • due
  • enforced
  • all together
  • analytical
  • businesslike
  • careful
  • deliberate
  • disciplined
  • efficient
  • exact
  • fixed
  • framed
  • grooved
  • logical
  • accredited
  • approved
  • authentic
  • authenticated
  • authoritative
  • bona fide
  • canonical
  • cathedral
  • ceremonious
  • certified
  • cleared
  • conclusive
  • absolute
  • actual
  • categorical
  • circumscribed
  • clear-cut
  • correct
  • decisive
  • definite
  • determinate
  • explicit
  • express
  • fixed
  • arbitrary
  • ethical
  • magistral
  • prescriptive
  • recommended
  • thetic
  • thetical
  • as a matter of form
  • done as a formality
  • for form's sake
  • perfunctory
  • able
  • applicable
  • appropriate
  • apt
  • au fait
  • becoming
  • befitting
  • capable
  • competent
  • convenient
  • decent
  • desired
  • ceremonious
  • conscientious
  • conscionable
  • conventional
  • exact
  • formal
  • formalistic
  • fussy
  • good eye
  • heedful
  • meticulous
  • nice
  • approved
  • bona fide
  • classic
  • commonplace
  • correct
  • customary
  • daily
  • established
  • everyday
  • formal
  • general
  • habitual
  • adamant
  • adamantine
  • austere
  • bullheaded
  • changeless
  • chiseled
  • dead set
  • definite
  • determined
  • exact
  • firm
  • fixed
  • Sacrament
  • act
  • ceremonial
  • communion
  • convention
  • custom
  • form
  • formality
  • habit
  • liturgy
  • observance
  • ordinance
  • ceremonial
  • conventional
  • established
  • formalistic
  • reverent
  • agreed
  • appointed
  • arranged
  • bent
  • certain
  • concluded
  • confirmed
  • customary
  • dead set on
  • decisive
  • definite
  • determined
  • austere
  • brooding
  • cold sober
  • deliberate
  • dignified
  • downbeat
  • earnest
  • funereal
  • glum
  • grave
  • heavy
  • intense
  • august
  • ceremonial
  • ceremonious
  • conventional
  • courtly
  • deliberate
  • elegant
  • elevated
  • formal
  • gallant
  • gracious
  • grand
  • banal
  • cliché-ridden
  • clichéd
  • commonplace
  • corny
  • dull
  • hackneyed
  • mass-produced
  • ordinary
  • overused
  • platitudinous
  • played out
  • banal
  • bathetic
  • bromidic
  • chain
  • cliched
  • cliché
  • clichéd
  • clichéd
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cornball
  • corny
  • austere
  • dead set
  • disciplinary
  • dour
  • draconian
  • exacting
  • firm
  • forbidding
  • grim
  • hard
  • hard-boiled
  • harsh
  • analytical
  • arranged
  • businesslike
  • complete
  • efficient
  • logical
  • methodic
  • methodical
  • ordered
  • organized
  • out-and-out
  • precise

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