Related Words for colloquial

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WordSyllablesCategories
conversational
xx/xx
Adjective, Adjective
informal
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
vernacular
x/xx
Noun
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective
jocular
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Adjective
euphemistic
xx/x
Adjective
idiom
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Noun
dialectal
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Adjective
pejorative
x/xx
Adjective
poetic
x/x
Adjective
ungrammatical
xx/xx
Adjective
argot
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Noun
adjective
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Noun
phraseology
xx/xx
Noun
lingo
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Noun
laconic
x/x
Adjective
linguistic
x/x
Adjective
demotic
x/x
Name
grammatical
x/xx
Adjective
vulgar
/x
Noun
etymological
xxx/xx
Noun
connotation
xx/x
Noun
diction
/x
Noun
vocabulary
x/xxx
Noun
folksy
/x
Adjective
poetical
x/xx
Name
descriptive
x/x
Adjective
locution
x/x
Noun
prosaic
x/x
Adjective
archaic
x/x
Name
terminology
xx/xx
Noun
language
/x
Noun
derogatory
x/xxx
Adjective
formal
/x
Adjective
pronunciation
xxx/x
Noun
phrase
/
Noun
interjection
xx/x
Noun
casual
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Adjective
honorific
xx/x
Adjective
endearment
x/x
Noun
connotative
xx/x
Adjective
figurative
/xxx
Adjective
lyrical
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Adjective
inflections
x/x
Noun
literal
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Adjective
periphrastic
x//x
Adjective
expletive
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Noun
monosyllabic
xxx/x
Adjective
common
/x
Adjective
nomic
/x
Adjective
standard
/x
Noun
semantic
x/x
Adjective
habitual
x/xx
Adjective
lexical
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Adjective
literate
/xx
Adjective
parol
xx
Noun
speaking
/x
Verb
fluent
/x
Adjective
vanilla
x/x
Noun
distinctive
x/x
Adjective
genetic
x/x
Adjective
discursive
x/x
Adjective
close
/
Adjective
notional
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Adjective
verbal
/x
Adjective
cognate
/x
Noun
flat
/
Adjective
cognitive
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Adjective
phonetic
x/x
Adjective
lingual
/x
Noun
regular
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Adjective
illocutionary
/x/xxx
Adjective
count
/
Noun
kuna
/x
Noun
oriya
x/x
Name
malayalam
x/x/
Name
sinhala
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Name
arabic
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Name
cantonese
xx/
Name
hindustani
/x/x
Name
tamil
x/
Name
telugu
/xx
Name
bengali
x/x
Name
kannada
//x
Name
indonesian
xx/x
Name
sinhalese
xx/
Name
afrikaans
xx/
Name
tibetan
x/x
Name
malay
/x
Name
burmese
x/
Name
yiddish
/x
Name
hindi
/x
Name
czech
/
Name
urdu
x/
Name
welsh
/
Name
abbreviation
xxx/x
Noun
persian
/x
Name
spanish
/x
Name
egyptian
x/x
Name
english
/x
Name
scots
/
Name
swedish
/x
Name
russian
/x
Name
hebrew
/x
Name
speech
/
Noun
japanese
xx/
Name
mandarin
/xx
Noun
portuguese
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Name
directness
x/x
Noun
allusive
x/x
Adjective
aramaic
/x/x
Name, Adjective
cookery
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Noun
craftsmen
/x
Noun
familiar
x/x
Adjective, Noun
folktales
/x
Noun
french
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
gardening
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Noun
german
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Adjective, Name
greek
/
Name, Adjective, Verb
mathematics
xx/x
Noun
navel
/x
Noun
pidgin
/x
Noun
popular
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Adjective, Noun
racy
/x
Adjective
remained
x/
Verb
scholarship
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Noun, Verb
simplified
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Adjective, Noun
stilted
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Adjective
style
/
Noun, Verb
untranslatable
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
chunk
/
Noun, Verb
cluster
/x
Noun, Verb
expression
x/x
Noun
collocation
xx/x
Noun
literally
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Adverb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
headlines
/x
Noun
sorta
/x
Adverb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
cloth
/
Noun
anymore
xx/
Adverb