colloquial
adjective
characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
uncolloquial
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a word derived from
colloquial.
Example Sentences
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It is not much use to remark on “the uncolloquial vocabulary of the speakers.”
From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Edward Thomas
Groome, with the dialogues in Lavengro and The Romany Rye, to see how the illusion in Borrow’s narrative is disturbed by the uncolloquial locutions of the speakers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
