Associations to the word «Colloquial»
Noun
- Accent
- Taiwanese
- Expression
- Nickname
- Tense
- Sanskrit
- Syriac
- Welsh
- Beginner
- Gender
- Kannada
- Variant
- Speaker
- Syllable
- Meaning
- Romani
- Latin
- Numeral
- Loose
- Navajo
- Rhineland
- Phoneme
- Verse
- Poetry
- Equivalent
- Storytelling
- Shu
- Persian
- Linguist
- Synonym
- Rhyme
- Name
- Rendering
- Context
- Conversation
- Allusion
- Twain
- Omission
- Malaysian
- Narration
- Marker
- Clause
- Lebanese
- Chinese
- Spelling
- Non
- Clarity
- Designation
- Sentence
- Je
Adjective
Verb
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.