colloquial
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6.5
- adjective
- /kəˈloʊkwiəl/
- Informal
- Let the interview questions be broad and colloquial, and not statistically demanding.
- colloquial language
- colloquial English
- colloquial speech
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Watch on YouTubeYou might use colloquial terms like frame drops or stutters.
- You might use colloquial terms like frame drops or stutters.
- Would you prefer the the official one teaspoon or just the colloquial teaspoon?
- Just screwing with people would be a rather colloquial way.
- And what what a lot of people get wrong is that a tragedy is not like our the colloquial usage of the word tragic.
- And what was the main fallout, let's say in the in the colloquial sense and the actual sense from the Chernobyl reactor?
- I this a syntax is a very colloquial way of referring, for example, to taxes on bad behavior.
- And there, there are there are people who, you know, the colloquial way we talk about it is that they feel things very deeply, right?
- Or, you know, there's in our colloquial sense of worry, there's probably some people who don't worry enough, who don't exercise enough attention or care or concern.
- Now, the reason it's called Barbie Botox as like the colloquial, colloquial, colloquial, colloquial, colloquial,
- CVS will not permit me to say the colloquial term, so let's just call them penis portraits.
- And the other way to call to call that colloquial is mocha la mocha la mocha.
Examples
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She prefers to use colloquial expressions when talking with her friends.
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How did he end up teaching you colloquial Arabic?
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In a colloquial kind of way, yes, it is.
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And there, there are there are people who, you know, the colloquial way we talk about it is that they feel things very deeply, right?
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And I was lucky in that I had a mother who was full of sort of this colloquial wisdom.
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Colloquial english will do fine, thank you.
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So hot is the more colloquial way of referring to the certain heat that we feel when we eat a really hot pepper.
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Talking with these men and other travelers, she developed excellent colloquial English.
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To my surprise, she addressed me in fluent colloquial American English and happily helped me with the card.
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The young authors combined colloquial English, Amharic, and Spanish to spin a tale of innuendo and mistaken identity.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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2.8
Informal and relaxed, not serious
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3.9
Like the way people speak when they talk in a relaxed way rather than formally
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1.0
Used in everyday speech rather than in formal writing
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6.5
Saying or writing in the everyday words ordinary people use rather than in formal language
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7.2
To use natural words and phrases like a native speaker
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5.3
Used by ordinary people rather than in formal or technical language
Antonyms
How Informal
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Etymology
The word colloquial comes from Latin parts: col- meaning 'together' and loqu- meaning 'speak'. So it originally meant 'speak together', and that's why colloquial describes everyday, informal speech rather than formal writing.