colloquial

IPA: kʌɫˈoʊkwiʌɫ

(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.
Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.

Examples of "colloquial" in Sentences

The word is unprofessional and colloquial.
Clanger is a colloquial term for 'mistake'.
The other use is an American colloquialism.
The title is a colloquialism of P Orridge's.
The verb snaffle is a British colloquialism.
Chomp is a colloquial term for the act of biting.
Johnson scorned what he called colloquial barbarisms.
The article claims that Whitewatergate is a colloquialism.
The inference is that the colloquialism is Australian, which it is not.
People that are not really fluent in colloquial Spanish believe it is an innocuous word.
Although reverting to the colloquial is accepted when one wishes to avoid any confusion as to characterization. datingjesus
We know how much this popular influence, or what I call the colloquial process, has infected the traditions of other nations, and it is very helpful to know this, in order to do justice to the Gospels.
But once it was realized that both speech and writing contained both formal and informal varieties, the term colloquial was not so effective, because it lacks an antonym apart from non-colloquial, and the like.