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Antonyms for formula

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fawr-myuh-luh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔr myə lə

Definition of formula

Origin :
  • 1630s, "words used in a ceremony or ritual," from Latin formula "form, draft, contract, regulation; rule, method, formula," literally "small form," diminutive of forma "form" (see form (n.)).
  • Modern sense is colored by Carlyle's use (1837) of the word for "rule slavishly followed without understanding" [OED].
  • Men who try to speak what they believe, are naked men fighting men quilted sevenfold in formulae. [Charles Kingsley, "Letters," 1861]
  • Mathematical use is from 1796; use in chemistry is from c.1846.
  • noun set preparation; rule, recipe
Example sentences :
  • The formula came glibly, but it was from the lips only that it came.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Where was the formula, the dogma, that would satisfy the hopes of the mankind of to-day?
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • The cutting harshness of Pierre's formula struck him in the heart.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Such a formula expresses the commandment of sexual ethics as we have defined it.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Paine was indeed of no century, and no formula of classification can confine him.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • That formula of card and messenger is so convenient and so cheap.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • So regular was his formula that I may omit it and you suppose it, every time that he opened his mouth.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • But he had only half the formula, the half he himself had developed.
  • Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi
  • As you know, we produced our halves of the formula separately.
  • Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi
  • With Klae gone, I could find no trace of his half of the formula.
  • Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi

Synonyms for formula

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