What are some opposite words for colloquial?
Antonyms for colloquial
kəˈloʊ kwi əlcol·lo·qui·al
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term colloquial.
Princeton's WordNet
colloquial, conversationaladjective
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
Antonyms:
formalSynonyms:
conversational
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
colloquialadjective
Synonyms:
conversational, familiar, informal
How to use colloquial in a sentence?
A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fu----- short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they’re fu----- retarded, they’re on the god---- spectrum, but they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country.
It's a public elementary school. Why are military insignia being used to design a new logo ? It's not a military academy, the colloquial recognition of this image for many people, within the Jewish community and outside the Jewish community, on an initial glance is Nazi imagery.
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3408 | formal | |
#53838 | colloquial |
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