About The Word Colloquial
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Colloquial
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What's The Definition Of Colloquial?
[adj] characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Colloquial: conversational | informal Related Terms | Find terms related to Colloquial: chatty | chitchatty | common | communicative | confabulatory | conversational | cozy | everyday | familiar | informal | interlocutory | nonstandard | patois | spoken | substandard | uneducated | unliterary | unstudied | vernacular | vulgar | vulgate See Also | Colloquial In Webster's Dictionary \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.
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
highest order. --Macaulay.
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