Colloquial is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLLOQUIAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a conversation
ADJECTIVE:
• (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary
• Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
• of or relating to conversation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of or relating to conversation; conversational

Words related to COLLOQUIAL

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Words that contain COLLOQUIAL

colloquials22 colloquially26 colloquialism26 colloquialist24 colloquiality27 colloquialisms27 colloquialists25 colloquialness25 colloquialities26

How to use COLLOQUIAL in a sentence

• Think of some one you have known who has the gift of racy colloquial utterance.
• Such a man, aided by the powerful assistants of person and manners, and no inconsiderable colloquial talents, Mrs.
• Johnson perceiving it, addressed himself to the boy, and changed the pompous phraseology into colloquial language.
• In other words, and in very colloquial language, I never had useless friends hanging about me.
• Many people, I know from colloquial experiences, do at about this stage fly into a passion.
• Tyrrel would not have been so patiently endured, had not his colloquial accomplishments perpetually come in aid of that authority which his rank and prowess originally obtained.
• I have a class of three or four adults an hour an evening four evenings in the week, receiving instruction in the colloquial.
• Arrangements have been made to print part of the history of Joseph in colloquial.
• Chiefly did he devote himself to the completion of a Character Colloquial Dictionary in the Amoy language, intended to be of special service to the Chinese Christian Church.
• Here he made the acquaintance of all the leading personages at the Ottoman Porte, and learned colloquial Turkish in perfection.
• Plautus in the Alling free and colloquial translations was enormously funny.
• When I speak, however, of his colloquial powers, I do not mean to awaken any notion analogous to that which Boswell has given us of Johnson.
• The dignity of the original is scarcely marred by a note of the colloquial.
• It is difficult to say just where the fault lies, but the thing seems uncouth, a trifle too colloquial and peasant-like.
• The brisk colloquial vocabulary fits admirably the brilliant sophistry of the argument.
• CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty PREFACE Probably the first criticism on this book will be that it is colloquial.
• Spoke English with a colloquial, theatrical manner more characteristic of Greater New York than of Venus.
• The two men looked at each other in the whites of their eyes, if we may use a phrase so colloquial.
• He is using it in a loose and colloquial sense which means “a passing thing”, a small amount, and not literally associating it with food.
• Since his time the use of Latin, as a colloquial, has gradually decreased, and at the present day the German is the chief language employed at the universities.
• In the original it is sometimes difficult to read, for Folengo has no objection to using the most colloquial words and phrases.
• There is one curious means by which the life of these words may be lengthened and by which, possibly, they may regain a current and colloquial use.
• Thrale had long been set up as rival candidates for colloquial eminence, and each of them thought the other alone worthy to be her peer.
• The use of the terms as in the foregoing is in accordance with colloquial practice.
• He was too impatient, and had too much nervous irritability and too rapid a flow of ideas, to indulge in familiar and colloquial conversation.

Similar words containing LLOQUI without suffix al and without prefix co

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