'Colloquial' definitions:
Definition of 'colloquial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Colloquial'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'colloquial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- chatty,
- chitchatty,
- common,
- communicative,
- confabulatory,
- conversational,
- cozy,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- informal,
- interlocutory,
- nonstandard,
- patois,
- spoken,
- substandard,
- uneducated,
- unliterary,
- unstudied,
- vernacular,
- vulgar,
- vulgate