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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation;
- Example: "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"
- Example: "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
[syn: colloquial, conversational]


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]
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]
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