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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, adjective [See {Colloqui}.] Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- {Col*lo"qui*al*ly}, adverb
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {conversational}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "colloquial": chatty, chitchatty, common, communicative, confabulatory, conversational, cozy, everyday, familiar, informal, interlocutory, nonstandard, patois, spoken, substandard, uneducated, unliterary, unstudied, vernacular, vulgar, vulgate
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