Hyphenation of formal

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word formal? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of formal:

1.	A lavish dance requiring formal attire
2.	A gown for evening wear
3.	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
4.	Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority Formal duties An official banquet
5.	(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
6.	Represented in simplified or symbolic form
7.	Logically deductive Formal proof
8.	Refined or imposing in manner or appearance Befitting a royal court A courtly gentleman

Synonyms of formal:

adj	formal, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, dress, full-dress, form-only, full-dress, dress, nominal, titular, positive, prescribed, semiformal, semi-formal, black-tie, starchy, stiff, buckram, white-tie, pro forma, perfunctory, conventional
adj	official
adj	formal, literary, rhetorical
adj	conventional, schematic, nonrepresentational
adj	logical
adj	courtly, elegant, stately, dignified

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.