Colloquial

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
           highest order.                           --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {conversational}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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