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colloquial

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Main Entry: colloquial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: particular, familiar to an area, informal

Synonyms:

chatty, common, conversational, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, jive, popular, street*, vernacular

Antonyms:

correct, formal, standard, stilted
Main Entry: chatty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: talkative

Synonyms:

colloquial, communicative, conversational, familiar, friendly, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, informal, intimate, loose-lipped, loquacious, multieloquent, spontaneous, talky

Antonyms:

quiet, silent, untalkative
Main Entry: common
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: average, ordinary

Synonyms:

accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out
Notes: mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead

Antonyms:

abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable
Main Entry: informal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: casual, simple

Synonyms:

breezy, colloquial, congenial, cool*, democratic, down home, easy, easygoing, everyday, extempore, familiar, folksy, frank, free, free-and-easy, homey, improv, inconspicuous, intimate, laid back, loose, low-pressure, mellow, mixed, motley, natural, off-the-cuff, open, ordinary, relaxed, spontaneous, sporty, straightforward, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, unfussy, unofficial, unrestrained, urbane, without ceremony

Antonyms:

buttoned-up, ceremonious, dressed-up, formal, official, rigid, stiff
Main Entry: vulgar
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, general

Synonyms:

colloquial, conversational, dime a dozen, everyday, familiar, garden variety, low, native, ordinary, plastic, plebeian, popular, public, run-of-the-mill, unrefined, vernacular

Antonyms:

aesthetic, artistic, fashionable
Main Entry: dialectal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regional

Synonyms:

colloquial, dialectical, idiomatic, indigenous, limited, local, local, provincial, vernacular
Main Entry: idiomatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: informal

Synonyms:

colloquial, dialectal, local, natural, vernacular
Main Entry: conversational
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: talkative

Synonyms:

blabby, casual, chatty, colloquial, familiar, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, informal, intimate, long-winded, loquacious, relaxed, talky, verbose, vocal, voluble
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