Antonym: literary. Similar words: loquacious, collar, collect, college, collapse, follow, roll out, collector. Meaning: [kə'ləʊkwɪəl] adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation.
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31) Imagists---A group of mainly American poets, including Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, who used sharp visual images and colloquial speech; active from 1912 to 1914.
32) The second chapter describes andand colloquial reading of Kaihui dialect.
33) The word "Knickerbocker", a Dutch surname, is used as a colloquial term for New Yorkers descended from the origin al Dutch settlers.
34) The folk customs in Min dialect areas breed and develop the local colloquial languages.
35) If say oneself know English, that deceives people, colloquial flooey is gotten very, total meeting blames an environment, it is interest and persistence actually, I think a society really.
36) The literal and colloquial phenomena in Min dialect have invoked the interests of the academia, and subsequent discussions on different sub-groups of the dialect.
37) Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years.
38) A colloquial term for a crisis of this time scale is a "decennial crisis" (meaning one that occurs after about ten years).
39) Bird - A colloquial expression used to refer to a communications satellite.
40) As a patois , or colloquial , slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor.
41) This brilliant, rambling satires is written in a colloquial style.
42) She was good at using reduplication and colloquial language to create the elegant, subtle, fresh and meaningful artistic style , which expresses her own feelings.
43) These words sound too literary to give them colloquial currency.
44) The Union colloquial and Valse means quite a lot of music taste, depicts the feudal bureaucrats ugly, with great nuance.
45) Chinese Colloquial words, those newly-born words or fully-grown ones with their meanings having changed, once prevailed among spoken languages of different social strata in history. Sentencedict.com
46) The corpus consists of mainly colloquial materials, covering as more phonetic phenomena as possible, including segmental and suprasegmental phonetic combinations.
47) The articulation index of putonghua (standard colloquial Chinese) is derived with a new method.
48) Both colloquial usage and slang are more common speech than in writing.
49) The new textbooks are composed mainly of colloquial American English.
50) There are about 900 English translations of the Bible, ranging from the grandiloquent to the colloquial.
51) First Holy Communion is the colloquial name for a person's first reception of the sacrament of the Eucharist.
52) To know more colloquial expressions is a head start in learning English.
53) In colloquial speech, the past progressive is sometimes used to show what one says is casual, unimportant and aimless, whereas the use of the simple past means differently.
54) Meanwhile, the village does not exist in California, either in colloquial speech or as a municipal corporation.
More similar words: loquacious, collar, collect, college, collapse, follow, roll out, collector, colleague, collection, collective, colonial, follow up, following, as follows, collaboration, follow through, quite, equip, equity, liquid, Color., color, inquiry, require, quietly, poll, doll, roll, toll.