Colloquial (Adjective)
Meaning
Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She tends to speak in a colloquial manner during everyday conversations but turns to a more formal tone during work meetings.
- Their story captured the authenticity of local experiences in the protagonist's colloquial narration style.
- I picked up several colloquial phrases and local idioms when visiting South Korea, enriching my ability to understand different conversations better.
- Non-native English speakers struggled with various nuances such as dialectical inflections, varying forms of syntax and widespread use of colloquial vocabulary found across major United States dialects.
- Popular poetry captures in stark brilliance such grand but occasionally minuscule representations inherent of even humbler periods shared profoundly yet enacting unique events drawn masterfully so blending native accent language hence enabling enriched passages crafted significantly thus attuned warmly encapsulated due eloquence giving mastery including when words reach informal talk.