Antonyms for colloquial
kəˈloʊ kwi əlcol·lo·qui·al

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1. colloquial, conversationaladjective

   characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

   "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

   Antonyms:
   formal

   Synonyms:
   conversational

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1. colloquialadjective

   Synonyms:
   conversational, familiar, informal

How to use colloquial in a sentence?

1. Albert Watkins:

   A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fu----- short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they’re fu----- retarded, they’re on the god---- spectrum, but they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country.

2. Amanda Flaks:

   It's a public elementary school. Why are military insignia being used to design a new logo ? It's not a military academy, the colloquial recognition of this image for many people, within the Jewish community and outside the Jewish community, on an initial glance is Nazi imagery.

3. Thornton Wilder:

   Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

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