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official

• (a) having official authority or sanction
  • official permission
  • an official representative
• (a) of or relating to an office
  • official privileges
• (s) verified officially
  • the election returns are now official
• (s) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
  • in prescribed order
  prescribed,
• (s) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

Nouns

• (n) a worker who holds or is invested with an office functionary,
• (n) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
  • the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling

Synonyms

functionary prescribed

Antonyms

unofficial

See also

authorised authorized

Words of close approximity