Cool and Formal

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Cool adjective - Having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others.

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Formal and cool are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Formal" instead an adjective "Cool".

Nearby Words: coolness, coolly, cooler, cooled, cooling

Formal adjective - Following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules.

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Cool and formal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cool" instead an adjective "Formal".

Even today the relationship between the two countries is mostly formal and cool.

Source: Useful Notes / Kievan Rus'
The Clans are a lot more formal early on; cats refer to parents by their actual names rather than calling them "mother" or "father", and there is almost no use of slang such as "cool".

Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Literature
The series also subverts it, though, with the Claw: he has an impossibly cool outfit (the spacesuit he wore when he left Earth), but he hates it and wears it only on formal occasions, preferring a work shirt and overalls.

Source: Impossibly Cool Clothes

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