formalistic

English

Etymology

From formalist +‎ -ic.

Adjective

formalistic (comparative more formalistic, superlative most formalistic)

1. Formalist.
   • 2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid.

Derived terms

• antiformalistic
• formalistically
• nonformalistic

Translations

formalist — see formalist

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “formalistic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.