What is the difference between informal and colloquial?
informal | colloquial |
Not formal or ceremonious.
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Suited for everyday use.
(of language) Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
(gardening) Not organized; not structured or planned.
(linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
Colloquial is a synonym of informal.
As adjectives the difference between informal and colloquial
is that informal is not formal or ceremonious while colloquial is denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.informal
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
