Colloquial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.
  • adj. Relating to conversation; conversational.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to conversation; conversational.
  • Peculiar or appropriate to the language of common or familiar conversation; belonging to ordinary, every-day speech: often especially applied to common words and phrases which are not admissible in elegant or formal speech.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
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    idiomatic    racy    conversational    stilted    poetical    archaic    everyday    grammatical    terse    figurative