colloquial
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
colloquial
adj 1: characteristic of informal spoken language or
conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style";
"the broken syntax and casual enunciation of
conversational English" [syn: {colloquial},
{conversational}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, a. [See {Colloqui}.]
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and
familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied;
informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a
colloquial style. -- {Col*lo"qui*al*ly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
highest order. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "colloquial":
chatty, chitchatty, common, communicative, confabulatory,
conversational, cozy, everyday, familiar, informal, interlocutory,
nonstandard, patois, spoken, substandard, uneducated, unliterary,
unstudied, vernacular, vulgar, vulgate
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