formalistic

From formalist +‎ -ic.

formalistic (comparative more formalistic, superlative most formalistic)

1. Formalist.
   • 2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “formalistic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.