| formal | | |
| n. (event) | 1. ball, formal | a lavish dance requiring formal attire. |
| ~ dance | a party for social dancing. |
| ~ cotilion, cotillion | a ball at which young ladies are presented to society. |
| ~ fancy-dress ball, masked ball, masquerade ball | a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks. |
| ~ prom, promenade | a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown, formal | a gown for evening wear. |
| ~ evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear | attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening. |
| ~ gown | a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions. |
| adj. | 3. formal | 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" |
| ~ conventional | following accepted customs and proprieties.; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" |
| ~ ceremonial | marked by pomp or ceremony or formality.; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb" |
| ~ ceremonious, conventional | rigidly formal or bound by convention.; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" |
| ~ dress, full-dress | (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes.; "a dress dinner"; "a full-dress ceremony" |
| ~ form-only | being a matter of form only; lacking substance.; "a form-only requirement that is usually ignored" |
| ~ dress, full-dress | suitable for formal occasions.; "formal wear"; "a full-dress uniform"; "dress shoes" |
| ~ titular, nominal | existing in name only.; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" |
| ~ prescribed, positive | formally laid down or imposed.; "positive laws" |
| ~ pro forma, perfunctory | as a formality only.; "a one-candidate pro forma election" |
| ~ black-tie, semi-formal, semiformal | moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket.; "he wore semiformal attire"; "a black-tie dinner" |
| ~ buckram, starchy, stiff | rigidly formal.; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" |
| ~ white-tie | requiring white ties and tailcoats for men.; "a white-tie occasion" |
| ~ formal | (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" |
| adj. | 4. formal | characteristic of or befitting a person in authority.; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" |
| ~ official | having official authority or sanction.; "official permission"; "an official representative" |
| adj. | 5. formal | (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" |
| ~ formal | 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" |
| ~ literary | appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.; "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| adj. | 6. conventional, formal, schematic | represented in simplified or symbolic form. |
| ~ beaux arts, fine arts | the study and creation of visual works of art. |
| ~ nonrepresentational | of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature. |
| adj. | 7. formal | logically deductive.; "formal proof" |
| ~ logical | capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning.; "a logical mind" |
| adj. | 8. courtly, formal, stately | refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.; "a courtly gentleman" |
| ~ dignified | having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance.; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman" |
| gentle | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate | cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" |
| ~ calm, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize, calm down, quiet, quieten, lull | make calm or still.; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" |
| v. (social) | 2. ennoble, entitle, gentle | give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility. |
| ~ elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade, advance, raise | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ baronetise, baronetize | confer baronetcy upon.; "He was baronetized for his loyalty to the country" |
| ~ lord | make a lord of someone. |
| ~ knight, dub | raise (someone) to knighthood.; "The Beatles were knighted" |
| v. (contact) | 3. gentle | stroke soothingly. |
| ~ pet | stroke or caress gently.; "pet the lamb" |
| adj. | 4. gentle, soft | soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe.; "a gentle reprimand"; "a vein of gentle irony"; "poked gentle fun at him" |
| ~ mild | moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme.; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism" |
| adj. | 5. gentle | having or showing a kindly or tender nature.; "the gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes" |
| ~ kind | having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior.; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter" |
| adj. | 6. gentle | quiet and soothing.; "a gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 7. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician | belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy.; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" |
| ~ noble | of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times.; "of noble birth" |
| adj. | 8. docile, gentle | easily handled or managed.; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" |
| ~ tamed, tame | brought from wildness into a domesticated state.; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" |
| adj. | 9. easy, gentle, soft | having little impact.; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window" |
| ~ light | of little intensity or power or force.; "the light touch of her fingers"; "a light breeze" |
| adj. | 10. easy, gentle | marked by moderate steepness.; "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope" |
| ~ gradual | (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt.; "a gradual slope" |
| upright | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. upright, vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake.; "the ball sailed between the uprights" |
| ~ pillar, column | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ goalpost | one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field. |
| ~ jamb | upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame. |
| ~ post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position.; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them" |
| ~ scantling, stud | an upright in house framing. |
| ~ scape, shaft | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column. |
| ~ stile | an upright that is a member in a door or window frame. |
| ~ structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. upright, upright piano | a piano with a vertical sounding board. |
| ~ forte-piano, piano, pianoforte | a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds. |
| ~ spinet | a small and compactly built upright piano. |
| adj. | 3. unsloped, upright | in a vertical position; not sloping.; "an upright post" |
| ~ vertical, perpendicular | at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line.; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height" |
| adj. | 4. good, just, upright | of moral excellence.; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man" |
| ~ righteous | characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice.; "the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much" |
| adj. | 5. erect, upright, vertical | upright in position or posture.; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" |
| ~ erectile | capable of being raised to an upright position.; "erectile feathers" |
| ~ fastigiate | having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column). |
| ~ orthostatic | pertaining to an upright standing posture.; "orthostatic hypotension" |
| ~ passant | in walking position with right foreleg raised. |
| ~ rearing, rampant | rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile.; "a lion rampant" |
| ~ semi-climbing | of plants that are semi-climbers. |
| ~ semi-erect | of plants that are partly erect. |
| ~ semi-upright | of animals that are partly erect. |
| ~ standing | having a supporting base.; "a standing lamp" |
| ~ stand-up | requiring a standing position.; "a stand-up bar"; "a stand-up comic" |
| ~ statant | standing on four feet. |
| ~ unbowed, unbent, straight | erect in posture.; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" |
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