colloquial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/(of words andexpressions)informaland moresuitablefor use inspeechthan in writing:
(词语或表达法)口语的,通俗语的,非正式的colloquialspeech口语
Synonym
conversational
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism