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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.
  2. adj. Relating to conversation; conversational.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to conversation; conversational.
  2. Peculiar or appropriate to the language of common or familiar conversation; belonging to ordinary, every-day speech: often especially applied to common words and phrases which are not admissible in elegant or formal speech.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. linguistics Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

Etymologies

  1. From colloquy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Kristianto2010 The scientific names of mushrooms are often used, as they give rise to less confusion than colloquial names (nama sehari-hari). Jan 24, 2011

  • dgstone This word is pleasing to the eyes but its rhythm is a little strange for my ears. Mar 13, 2008

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