Associations to the word «Colloquial»
Noun
- Influence
- Etymology
- Acronym
- Spanish
- Discourse
- Variation
- Anglo
- Writing
- Tongue
- Singapore
- Initial
- Norm
- Particle
- Simple
- Incorporation
- Sermon
- Tendency
- Relaxation
- Poem
- Currency
- Tone
- Humor
- Rhythm
- Ne
- Ending
- Person
- Phenomenon
- Definition
- Myanmar
- Similarity
- Pe
- Realism
- Sudan
- Emphasis
- Shakespeare
- Morphology
- Mal
- Difference
- Setting
- Lyric
- Purity
- Employ
- Transcription
- Arab
- Que
- Neo
- Acquaintance
- Ba
- Standard
- Coin
Adjective
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
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.