Meaning of INFORMAL
| Pronunciation: | | in'formul
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- [adj] not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
- [adj] used of spoken and written language
- [adj] having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere; especially through smallness and informality; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate"
- [adj] not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
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| | Synonyms: | | casual, colloquial, common, conversational, cozy, epistolary, epistolatory, everyday, folksy, free-and-easy, friendly, intimate, loose, nonliterary, slangy, subliterary, unceremonial, unceremonious, unliterary, unofficial, vernacular, vulgar |
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| | Antonyms: | | formal | | |
| | See Also: | | informal, unrhetorical | |
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| | Definition: | |  Informal
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*form"al\, a. [Pref. in- not + formal.]
1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not
according to official, conventional, prescribed, or
customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without
ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit.
2. Deranged in mind; out of one's senses. [Obs.]
These poor informal women. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | affable, beat, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, Bohemian, breakaway, careless, casual, chintzy, colloquial, common, conversational, cordial, degage, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, en deshabille, everyday, familiar, far out, folksy, free, free and easy, fringy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, garden-variety, gracious, grubby, haymish, heretical, heterodox, hippie, homely, homey, in dishabille, in rags, irregular, kinky, loose, lumpen, maverick, messy, mussy, natural, negligent, nonstandard, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, offhand, offhanded, ordinary, original, plain, poky, private, ragged, raggedy, relaxed, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, simple, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sociable, sordid, special, spoken, spontaneous, sporty, squalid, substandard, tacky, tattered, unaffected, unassuming, unauthorized, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, uneducated, unfashionable, unkempt, unliterary, unneat, unofficial, unorthodox, unpretentious, unsightly, unstudied, untidy, vernacular, way out |
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