Associations to the word «Colloquial»

Wiktionary

COLLOQUIAL, adjective. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.

Dictionary definition

COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn