What is "formalistic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "formalistic": concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)

Adjective

Synonyms:

abstract, theoretical, hypothetical, closet, conjectural, speculative, notional, precise, academic, solemn, explicit, legal, strict, proper, ceremonial, express, set, official, regular, ritual, approved, ceremonious, confirmed, conventional, decorous, directed, fixed, lawful, methodical, prescribed, pro forma, punctilious, rigid, ritualistic, stately, stereotyped, systematic, stereotypical, ceremonialistic, ceremonious, conscientious, conventional, exact, formal, fussy, heedful, meticulous, nice, observant, painstaking, particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, scrupulous, strict, right on, conscionable, good eye, overconscientious, overscrupulous, imaginative, abstract, metaphysical, intellectual, vague, academic, philosophical, logical, analytical, speculative, assumed, conjectural, contingent, general, ideal, impractical, on paper, pedantic, pure, quixotic, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unsubstantiated, notional, problematical, suppositional, unproved, as a premise, codified, formularized, idealized, ideational, ideological, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, postulated, presumed, ceremonial, conventional, established, reverent, skeletal, constitutional, architectural, basic, formative, organic, anatomical, anatomic, constructural, formational, tectonic, abstract, academic, analytical, assumed, conjectural, contingent, general, hypothetical, ideal, imaginative, impractical, as a premise, codified, formularized, idealized, ideational, ideological, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intelle, abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, literary, ostentatious, particular, pedagogic, pedantical, pompous, priggish, punctilious, sententious, stilted, donnish, nit-picking, overnice, scholastic, schoolish, abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, inkhorn, learned, literary, ostentatious, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, sententious, stilted, donnish, nit-picking, overnice, scholastic, schoolish, abstract, academic, analytical, assumed, conjectural, contingent, general, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, imaginative, impractical, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, notional, on paper, pedantic, philosophical, problematical, pure, quixotic, speculative, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated, vague, as a premise, codified, formularized, idealized, ideational, ideological, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, postulated, presumed,

Antonyms:

factual, real, ignorant, proven, untaught, ordinary, plain, practical, simple, ambiguous, inaccurate, indefinite, informal, customary, ordinary, disorderly, relaxed, normal, unaffected, informal, uncaring, careless, easy-going, objective, real, ignorant, illogical, factual, concrete, material, physical, simple, certain, definite, proven,