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dear. If someone or something is deartoyou, it means you hold them or it very close to your heart, asin"My country is very dear to me" or "She is adearfriend." As a written form of address — such as"DearMr. So-and-so" — dear is generally apolite butimpersonal standard greeting.
Moreover, is Dear formal?
"Dear" is customary in letter salutations.Thatincludes business letters, letters to people you don't know,andletters to people you don't like. Otherwise, "dear" isanendearment. The degree of closeness it expresses depends onthespeaker, and probably varies regionally as well.
Thereof, do you start a professional email with dear?
Try “Dear Sir or Madam” ifyouwant to use this greeting. "Hello," whilelessformal, is also less likely to offend and is agoodway to start an email when you don't knowthename of the recipient. If the organization encourageslessformal emails, it could be appropriate to startanemail with a simple “Hi.”
While those informal styles of greeting are fineforcasual emails to friends or even for more formal emails youmightsend out to groups of people, in a professionalletteryou'll need to use a personal salutation, one with either afirstand/or last name (“Dear Mr. Doe”) or a jobtitle(“Dear Hiring Manager”).