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say it: kuh-LOH-kwee-uhl
colloquial is an adjective meaning "characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation". It carries one recorded sense.
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
“wrote her letters in a colloquial style”
“the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for colloquial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.