Formal
Formal adjective - Following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules.
Legal and formal are semantically related. in official topic. In some cases you can use "Legal" instead an adjective "Formal", when it comes to topics like established.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The term Not Safe for Work has no equivalent in many languages, as it's normally considered formal/legal speech in English, especially in American English.
Source: Lost in Translation -
In commonly spoken Finnish, "it" is used in the place of he/she by a majority of Finns and it's not usually considered rude or dehumanizing, though this is never used in legal texts or formal speeches or anything like that.
Source: "It" Is Dehumanizing -
In the Chivalric Romance Bisclavret — in an era where legal proceedings were less formal — Bisclavret, trapped in wolf form and living at the Standard Royal Court, fiercely attacked first the knight who had married his wife after he was so trapped, and then his wife.
Source: Make the Dog Testify
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