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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
formulaic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a formulaic mystery novel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was formulaic fast Ministry music, so we thought it out.
▪ It is the simple or formulaic use of the trust clause which is of the greater significance.
▪ Set up so it could be sustained by armies of private profit-making firms, it had to be formulaic.
▪ There is no doubt generally that children love jokes and riddles that are predictably structured and heavily formulaic, whatever the fashionable subject-matter.
▪ This film is too formulaic, meandering slowly through the typical initiation scenes of a stranger in a strange place.
▪ This would not imply that all of the many thousands of formulaic expressions would be expressly taught.
▪ Within the category of lexical items, I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
formulaic

1845, from formula + -ic.

Wiktionary
formulaic

a. Closely following a formula or predictable pattern; imitative, not original.

WordNet
formulaic

adj. characterized by or in accordance with some formula

Usage examples of "formulaic".

This kind of writing has coexisted with the Chekhovian kind for a number of decades, and if, as many have noted, the attenuated and formulaic New Yorker story represents the final stage of the older form, it may be that the Kafkan mode is gaining ascendancy over modern tastes.

Llesho answered with a formulaic plea for hospitality that he hoped would cool tempers growing chancy.

At last he did take a couple of fine small bronzes, one a statuette of Illil with a moon in either hand, the other a portrait bust of Sabium that managed to capture something of her character in spite of being almost as rigidly formulaic as the image of the god.