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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, familiar to an area, informal |
| Synonyms: | chatty, common, conversational, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, jive, popular, street*, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | correct, formal, standard, stilted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | informal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, simple |
| Synonyms: | breezy, colloquial, congenial, cool*, democratic, down home, easy, easygoing, everyday, extempore, familiar, folksy, frank, free, free-and-easy, homey, improv, inconspicuous, intimate, laid back, loose, low-pressure, mellow, mixed, motley, natural, off-the-cuff, open, ordinary, relaxed, spontaneous, sporty, straightforward, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, unfussy, unofficial, unrestrained, urbane, without ceremony |
| Antonyms: | buttoned-up, ceremonious, dressed-up, formal, official, rigid, stiff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, general |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, conversational, dime a dozen, everyday, familiar, garden variety, low, native, ordinary, plastic, plebeian, popular, public, run-of-the-mill, unrefined, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | aesthetic, artistic, fashionable |
| Main Entry: | dialectal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regional |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, dialectical, idiomatic, indigenous, limited, local, local, provincial, vernacular |
| Main Entry: | idiomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informal |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, dialectal, local, natural, vernacular |
| Main Entry: | conversational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
| Synonyms: | blabby, casual, chatty, colloquial, familiar, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, informal, intimate, long-winded, loquacious, relaxed, talky, verbose, vocal, voluble |
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