FORMAL Crossword Clue & Answer

set

grim meet prim rite

aloof chill civil exact fixed gassy grave heavy legal modal quasi right rigid sober staid state stiff tails tumid usual

byname decent demure dressy forced frigid guinde in hand lawful leaden normal office polite proper ritual sedate seemly severe solemn somber sombre square steady strict stuffy turgid tuxedo verbal

awkward bloated correct courtly cramped distant earnest express gallant genteel halting inkhorn labored limited linking liturgy mummery nominal ordered orderly organic outward paschal plastic pompous precise prudish regalia regular routine serious service stately stilted surface swollen titular uniform weighty would-be

accepted admitted anatomic approved arranged ceremony cumbrous decorous definite elevated exacting exercise explicit formular frowning function habitual inflated knightly laboured latinate literary liturgic official old-world orthodox pedantic priggish pro forma received reserved so-called standard starched straight stylized supposed tagmemic tectonic textural unwieldy

adverbial baptismal being done bombastic chivalric confining customary de rigueur dignified earnestly edificial epithetic exercises extrinsic flatulent formalist formality formative formulaic formulary full dress grammatic grim-faced honorific inaugural long-faced lumbering morphotic ponderous pretended professed purported soi-disant solemnity syntactic unbending unsmiling

adjectival authorized ceremonial chivalrous cognominal copulative diminutive formalized functional graduation harmonious high church high-church impersonal in name only inflexible initiation legalistic liturgical methodical nominative observance organismal ostensible pontifical prescribed pronominal recognised recognized scholastic self-called self-styled sobersided stone-faced straitened structural systematic thoughtful transitive unchanging

attributive celebration ceremonious comme il faut conditional conformable conjunctive convocation elephantine established eucharistic formal dress formalistic formational glossematic grammatical grim-visaged liturgistic participial performance perfunctory punctilious ritualistic sacramental sober-minded strait-laced substantive superficial symmetrical traditional well-ordered

acknowledged businesslike commencement conventional dress uniform evening dress hypocoristic inauguration intransitive old fashioned old-fashioned

architectonic architectural grandiloquent morphological parliamentary prepositional rite de passage rite of passage self-conscious self-contained self-important solemnization straight-faced substructural well-regulated

constructional empty formality postpositional sacramentarian self-christened sesquipedalian

superstructural

conventionalized

religious ceremony

graduation exercises

baccalaureate service