colloquial
colloquial is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- allegorical
- allegorize
- allegory
- allude
- allusion
- allusive
- ambiguity
- anagoge
- anagogical
- anagram
- analogy
- antiphrasis
- apologue
- application
- apply
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- association
- babu
- barbarism
- black
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- catachresis
- catachrestical
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquialism
- confusion
- corruption
- dialect
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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