Colloquial

Adjective

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

Adverbs for Colloquial
informally; easily; admissibly; chattily; provincially; pleasantly; frankly; agreeably;  comfortably; familiarly; sociably; ingenuously; childishly; simply; naturally; unceremoniously; unconventionally; recklessly; candidly: artlessly.

Derived terms
colloquialism; colloquially; colloquialness; colloquiality;

Related terms
colloquium; colloquy; slang;

Thesaurus
chatty, chitchatty, common, communicative, confabulatory, conversational, cozy, everyday, familiar, informal, interlocutory, nonstandard, patois, spoken, substandard, uneducated, unliterary, unstudied, vernacular, vulgar, vulgate

Etymology
1751, from earlier term colloquy: (a conversation), from colloquium: (conference, conversation), from con-: (together) + loqui: (speak).

Translations

 * Arabic: عامي,  دارج
 * Bulgarian: разговорен
 * Catalan: col·loquial
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dagligsprogs-
 * Dutch: gemeenzaam, idiomatisch, van de spreektaal, informeel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * German:, Umgangs- (noun prefix)
 * Greek: κοινολεκτικός
 * Japanese: 口語体(こうごたい, kōgotai), 話し言葉の (はなしことばの, hanashikotoba no),
 * Polish: kolokwialny,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: разговорный, нелитературный
 * Slovene: pogovorni
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: vardaglig