unformaladj.
a. = informal adj. 2.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour
irregular1395
unformalc1449
informalc1475
disordered1561
monstrous1568
odd1577
irregulate1579
exorbitant1613
free-spirited1613
exorbitating1632
inconformable1633
extravagant1650
inconform1659
eccentric1685
unconformable1702
outrageous1778
unconventional1840
erratic1841
kinky1844
Bohemian1846
radical1869
Bohemic1874
nonconforming1899
hard case1904
jazz1917
offbeat1922
deviant1935
deviate1945
oddball1945
left field1951
way out1955
boho1958
non-conformant1960
sideways1969
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > movement of parts > specific
unformal1597
transgressive1761
consecutive1819
hidden1869
tonal1869
ostinato1876
direct1880
sequential?1890
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 9 Thei schulden not be..so ruyde and vnformal and boistose in resonyng.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 81 Your fift, sixt, and seuenth notes be wilde and vnformall, for that vnformall skipping is condemned in this kinde of singing.
1610 T. Campion New Way Counter-point sig. C5v This passage from the flat to the sharpe would be vnformall.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 496 Often times they return unformal verdicts.
1799 H. Mitchell Scotticisms 87 The contract was unformal.
b. = informal adj. 3a.
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1825 C. Stanley Jrnl. in Mem. (1879) 211 The unpunctual [people] are easy, good-tempered, unfussy,..unformal.
1858 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 328 The rude independence of character, which was generated by that free and unformal life.
Derivatives
unˈformally adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adverb] > movement of parts
formally1509
unformally1597
sequentially1891
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 86 Your seuenth and eighth notes, wherein you fal..so vnformallie to B fa ♭ mi backe againe.
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