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adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

free-and-easy, casual

adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"

idiomatic, idiomatical

adj. of or relating to or conforming to idiom; "idiomatic English"

common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

common, vernacular, vulgar

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

epistolary, epistolatory

adj. written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel"

slangy

adj. constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"

subliterary

adj. not written as or intended to be literature; "subliterary works such as letters and diaries"

unliterary, nonliterary

adj. marked by lack of affectation or pedantry; "her talk was very unliterary"- W.D.Howells

formal

adj. (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"

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