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formulaic

US/ˌfɔɹmjəˈleɪ.ɪk/

formulaic adjective: conventionalized.

Adjective

formulaic (comparative more formulaic, superlative most formulaic)

  1. Conventionalized.
    • a formulaic greeting
    • Homeric Greeks valued clichés because not only the poets but the entire oral noetic world or thought world relied upon the formulaic constitution of thought.1982, Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 23–24
  2. Imitative; unoriginal; trite.
    • That TV series has become awfully formulaic in the last couple of seasons.
    • Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15

formulaic meaning in Urdu

formulaic in Urdu

حسب نسخہ

Examples of formulaic in a sentence

  • The actors turned in a formulaic performance.
  • The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.
  • The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.

All 13 example sentences with formulaic

Forms of formulaic

comparativemore formulaic
superlativemost formulaic

Origin of formulaic

From formula + -ic.

Words formed from formulaic

Words that rhyme with formulaic

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about formulaic

What does formulaic mean?
Formulaic means conventionalized.
What is formulaic in Urdu?
Formulaic in Urdu is حسب نسخہ. See Formulaic meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is formulaic?
Formulaic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce formulaic?
Formulaic is pronounced /ˌfɔɹmjəˈleɪ.ɪk/ (US).

Words near formulaic in the dictionary

  1. formula unit
  2. formula units
  3. formulability
  4. formulable
  5. formulae
  6. formulaic
  7. formulaically
  8. formulaicity
  9. formulaicness
  10. formulant
  11. formulants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: formulaic (page history and authors); formulaic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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