formal vs positive

formal and positive both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
formal	Yes	Yes	No	No
positive	Yes	Yes	No	No

formal (noun)	positive (noun)
a gown for evening wear	a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
a lavish dance requiring formal attire	the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

formal (adjective)	positive (adjective)
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)	characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms	indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court	reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
logically deductive	of or relating to positivism
represented in simplified or symbolic form	involving advantage or good
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority	persuaded of; very sure
	having a positive charge
	marked by excessive confidence
	formally laid down or imposed
	greater than zero
	impossible to deny or disprove