Associations to the word «Colloquial»

Wiktionary

COLLOQUIAL, adjective. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.

Dictionary definition

COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates