formalistic
adjective
formalistic is an adjective meaning “Formalist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-I-S-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does formalistic mean?
adjective
- 1
Formalist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of formalistic
- more formalistic comparative
- most formalistic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is formalistic?
Formalistic appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does formalistic come from?
From formalist + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).