formalwear

Other forms of formalwear

plural

formalwears·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about formalwear

What does formalwear mean?

formalwear means "attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening".

How many syllables are in formalwear?

formalwear has 4 syllables and divides as for-mal-we-ar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for formalwear?

Close synonyms include eveningwear, evening dress, evening clothes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is formalwear a common word?

formalwear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.