formalize

Verb

Meaning

To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.

To render formal.

To affect formality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

validate formalise form order shape formal sign accept establish frame license confirm warrant approve confirming

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Antonyms

give avoid disorder chaos cancel disrupt

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Hypernyms

clear hold pass declare authorize authorise

Hyponyms

sign ratify probate ritualize cosign ritualise

Derivatives

formalized formalizing

Examples

Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it. Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do. Paul McCartney

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual. Richard Griffiths

We formalized the appointment and gave him a title Source: Internet

According to Dembski, the concept is intended to formalize a property that singles out patterns that are both specified and complex. Source: Internet

Along with giga- or G-, meaning main, they are now known as SI prefixes after the International System of Units (SI), introduced in 1960 to formalize aspects of the metric system. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

formalizability formalizable formalization formalized formalizer formally