Illustration: At an apartment-building maintenance desk, an inspector presses a stamp onto a sheet while waving the next resident forward. Directly beside the desk stands the item supposedly being checked: a folding chair with a visibly cracked seat and one leg bent sharply inward.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

形けい式しき的てき

keishikiteki

formal, only in form

Often contrasts with what happens in practice. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 廃止法令はいしほうれいは特とくに出だされず、形式的けいしきてきには明治維新期めいじいしんきまで存続そんぞくした。

    There was no official announcement of abolishing it, and thus it perfunctorily remained until the Meiji Restoration period.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. こうして形式的けいしきてきな和睦わぼくを行おこない、紀伊国きいのくにから撤兵てっぺいした。

    He made a nominal reconciliation in this way and withdrew from Kii Province.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. つまり秀頼ひでよりは、形式的けいしきてきには依然いぜんとして家康いえやすの主筋しゅうすじだったわけである。

    In other words, Hideyori had still formally been Ieyasu’s master.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 形式的

  • 形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり
  • 式style; ceremonyOnシキ
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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