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Word | Colloquial |
Urdu Meaning | بولچال, عام بول چال کا, روز مرہ |
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; wrote her letters in a colloquial style; the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English / Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation / pertaining to conversational or common speech; informal / (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. / used when people are speaking in an informal way / using an informal style, | |
Usage | ⇒ Colloquial expressions are not used in writing ⇒ Some of the new, colloquial reading passages on standardized tests have a conversational tone intended to make them more appealing to test-takers. ⇒ the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression—to rub me the wrong way ⇒ I had four or five Chinese dialects at my disposal, phrases in colloquial English, and of course, Malay. ⇒ colloquial expressions |
Synonyms | conversational, informal, vulgar, vernacular, common, familiar, chatty, idiomatic, everyday, ordinary, popular, slang, spoken, confabulatory, dialectal, street, substandard, unliterary, base, casual, |
Antonyms | formal, correct, literary, standard, bookish, elevated, genteel, learned, proper, stately, abstruse, adequate, affable, agreeable, allowed, amiable, approved, attentive, attractive, authoritative, |
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