- Affected in manner - Excessively formal - Formal, prudish - Originally particularly right in manners - Prissy: ... and proper - Proper in actions - Stiffly neat
- Excessively formal - Excessively formal or turgid - Heavy (food) - Heavy (of food) - Heavy and boring (food) - Heavy and dull - It's boring and conventional to keep wild dog in pen
- Excessively formal - Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In
this sense ceremonial is now preferred.] - According to prescribed or customary rules and forms;
devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
- Apes and monkeys - Excessively formal seat designed for archbishops - The highest order of mammals. It includes man,
together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.