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colloquial adjective [ kəˈləʊkwɪəl ]

• (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
• "colloquial and everyday language"
Similar: informal, conversational, everyday, casual, non-literary, natural, unofficial, unpretentious, familiar, chatty, friendly, idiomatic, slangy, vernacular, popular, demotic,
Opposite: literary, formal,
Origin: mid 18th century: from Latin colloquium ‘conversation’ + -al.


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