adj.
- Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.
- Relating to conversation; conversational.
colloquial
adj : characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English" [syn: conversational]
cf. formal
adj 1: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" [ant: informal]
2: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
3: (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English" [ant: informal]
4: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, schematic]
5: logically deductive; "formal proof"
6: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, elegant, stately]
첫댓글 It was a colloquial expression. 그것은 구어체 표현이었다.