Exact Match:
- colloquialism
- a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- slang
collapse - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
- informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar; "their speech was full of slang expressions"
- abuse with coarse language
- use slang or vulgar language related words >
- Aesopian language,
- Babel,
- Greek,
- argot,
- babble,
- barbarism,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- bounce,
- brag,
- bully,
- cant,
- cipher,
- code,
- colloquialism,
- common speech,
- corruption,
- cryptogram,
- double Dutch,
- garble,
- gasconade,
- gibberish,
- gift of tongues,
- glossolalia,
- gobbledygook,
- hector,
- illiterate speech,
- impropriety,
- intimidate,
- jargon,
- jargonal,
- jargonish,
- jumble,
- lingo,
- localism,
- mumbo jumbo,
- noise,
- out-herod Herod,
- patois,
- patter,
- phraseology,
- rage,
- rant,
- rave,
- roister,
- rollick,
- scatological,
- scatology,
- scramble,
- secret language,
- slangy,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- storm,
- substandard language,
- swagger,
- swashbuckle,
- taboo,
- taboo language,
- taboo word,
- vapor,
- vernacular,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar tongue,
- vulgarism,
- vulgate
- Babbittry,
- Gothicism,
- bad taste,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- bombasticness,
- bourgeois taste,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- camp,
- campiness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- dysphemism,
- gracelessness,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heaviness,
- high camp,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inappropriateness,
- inconcinnity,
- incorrectness,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- kitsch,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- leadenness,
- localism,
- low camp,
- philistinism,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- slang,
- slipshod construction,
- solecism,
- stiltedness,
- taboo word,
- tastelessness,
- turgidity,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- uncouthness,
- uneuphoniousness,
- unfittingness,
- ungracefulness,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unwieldiness,
- vernacularism,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness
- localism
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- a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality related words >
- Acadian,
- Anglo-Indian,
- Brooklynese,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- Cockney,
- French Canadian,
- Gullah,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- New England dialect,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- Yankee,
- Yorkshire,
- autarky,
- barbarism,
- bimetallism,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- class dialect,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- dialect,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect dictionary,
- economic self-sufficiency,
- free enterprise,
- free trade,
- governmentalism,
- idiom,
- impropriety,
- isogloss,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- line,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- local dialect,
- managed currency,
- noninterference,
- nonintervention,
- nullification,
- party line,
- party principle,
- patois,
- planned economy,
- policy,
- polity,
- position,
- price supports,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- provincialism,
- public policy,
- pump-priming,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- sectionalism,
- slang,
- speech community,
- subdialect,
- taboo word,
- vulgarism
- Gothicism,
- Irish bull,
- Neanderthalism,
- age of ignorance,
- animality,
- antiphrasis,
- bad taste,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- benightedness,
- benightment,
- bestiality,
- bombasticness,
- brutality,
- brutishness,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- dark,
- dark age,
- darkness,
- dysphemism,
- error,
- foreignism,
- gracelessness,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heathenism,
- heaviness,
- ill breeding,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impoliteness,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- incivility,
- inconcinnity,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- lapse,
- leadenness,
- localism,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- misconstruction,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- neologism,
- paganism,
- philistinism,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- savagery,
- savagism,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- shibboleth,
- slang,
- slip,
- slipshod construction,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- stiltedness,
- taboo word,
- tastelessness,
- troglodytism,
- turgidity,
- uncivilizedness,
- uncouthness,
- uncultivatedness,
- uncultivation,
- unculturedness,
- unenlightenment,
- uneuphoniousness,
- ungracefulness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unwieldiness,
- vernacularism,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- wildness
- vernacular
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- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) related words >
- Babbittish,
- Philistine,
- aboriginal,
- accustomed,
- ancient language,
- argot,
- austerity,
- autochthonous,
- average,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bourgeois,
- campy,
- candor,
- cant,
- classical language,
- colloquial,
- colloquial speech,
- colloquial usage,
- colloquialism,
- common,
- common speech,
- commonplace,
- confined,
- conventional,
- conversational,
- conversationalism,
- current,
- customary,
- dead language,
- directness,
- easy,
- endemic,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- frankness,
- general,
- geographically limited,
- gibberish,
- gobbledygook,
- habitual,
- high-camp,
- homebred,
- homegrown,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- household words,
- idiom,
- illiterate speech,
- indigenous,
- informal,
- informal English,
- informal language,
- informal speech,
- insular,
- jargon,
- kitschy,
- language,
- leanness,
- limited,
- lingo,
- living language,
- local,
- localized,
- low-camp,
- matter-of-factness,
- mother tongue,
- mumbo jumbo,
- natal,
- native,
- native language,
- native speech,
- native tongue,
- native-born,
- naturalness,
- nonstandard,
- normative,
- of a place,
- openness,
- ordinary,
- original,
- parent language,
- parochial,
- patois,
- patter,
- phraseology,
- plain,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- predominating,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- primitive,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- provincial,
- public,
- regional,
- regular,
- regulation,
- restrainedness,
- rustic style,
- scatology,
- severity,
- simple,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- slang,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- speech,
- spoken,
- spoken language,
- standard,
- starkness,
- stock,
- straightforward,
- straightforwardness,
- substandard,
- substandard language,
- taboo language,
- talk,
- topical,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- uneducated,
- unimaginativeness,
- universal,
- unliterary,
- unpoeticalness,
- unstudied,
- usual,
- vernacularism,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar tongue,
- vulgate,
- wonted
- corruption
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- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) related words >
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- adulteration,
- alienation,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- antiphrasis,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- bastardizing,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- blight,
- brainwashing,
- breakup,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- calembour,
- carrion,
- college of Laputa,
- colloquialism,
- contamination,
- corrosion,
- corruptedness,
- corruptness,
- counterindoctrination,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- crying evil,
- cutting,
- damage,
- dandruff,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- deviousness,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dissoluteness,
- dissolution,
- doctoring,
- envenoming,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- evasiveness,
- evil,
- excrement,
- false coloring,
- feloniousness,
- festering,
- filth,
- fortifying,
- foul matter,
- fouling,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furfur,
- gammacism,
- gangrene,
- graft,
- grievance,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- improbity,
- impropriety,
- indirection,
- indoctrination,
- infection,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- jeu de mots,
- lacing,
- lambdacism,
- localism,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- mess,
- metagram,
- mildew,
- mischief,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misinterpretation,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mispronunciation,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misteaching,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mold,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mystification,
- mytacism,
- obfuscation,
- obscenity,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ordure,
- outrage,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palindrome,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- paronomasia,
- perversion,
- play on words,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- profligacy,
- prostitution,
- pun,
- punning,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- reindoctrination,
- reprobacy,
- resolution,
- rhotacism,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slang,
- slanting,
- slime,
- slipperiness,
- smut,
- snot,
- solecism,
- sophistry,
- sordes,
- spiking,
- spoilage,
- spoonerism,
- straining,
- subornation,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- taboo word,
- the worst,
- torturing,
- toxin,
- trickiness,
- turpitude,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vitiation,
- vulgarism,
- watering,
- woe,
- wordplay,
- wrong
- phrase
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- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- a short musical passage
- divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- adage,
- address,
- adjectival phrase,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- ana,
- anacrusis,
- analects,
- answer,
- aphorism,
- apostrophe,
- apothegm,
- article,
- articulate,
- assertion,
- averment,
- axiom,
- back matter,
- bass passage,
- book,
- bourdon,
- breathe,
- bridge,
- burden,
- byword,
- cadence,
- catchword,
- chapter,
- chestnut,
- chime,
- choice of words,
- chorus,
- clause,
- cliche,
- coda,
- collected sayings,
- collocation,
- colloquialism,
- column,
- come out with,
- comment,
- commonplace,
- communicate,
- composition,
- conceive,
- convey,
- couch,
- couch in terms,
- crack,
- current saying,
- declaration,
- delineate,
- deliver,
- describe,
- development,
- dialect,
- dictate,
- diction,
- dictum,
- disclose,
- distich,
- division,
- embody in words,
- emit,
- enunciate,
- epigram,
- exclamation,
- exposition,
- express,
- expression,
- fascicle,
- figure,
- fling off,
- folderol,
- folio,
- formularize,
- formulate,
- formulation,
- frame,
- front matter,
- gathering,
- give,
- give expression,
- give expression to,
- give out with,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- give words to,
- glosseme,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- grammar,
- greeting,
- harmonic close,
- icon,
- idiom,
- impart,
- installment,
- interjection,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- introductory phrase,
- language,
- leitmotiv,
- let out,
- lexeme,
- lexical form,
- lip,
- livraison,
- locution,
- manner of speaking,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mention,
- moral,
- morpheme,
- mot,
- motif,
- motive,
- motto,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- note,
- noun phrase,
- number,
- observation,
- oracle,
- ornament,
- out with,
- page,
- paragraph,
- parlance,
- part,
- passage,
- period,
- phonate,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pithy saying,
- platitude,
- position,
- pour forth,
- precept,
- prescript,
- present,
- pronounce,
- pronouncement,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- put,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- question,
- raise,
- reflection,
- refrain,
- remark,
- resolution,
- response,
- rhetoric,
- rhetorize,
- ritornello,
- saw,
- say,
- saying,
- section,
- semasiological unit,
- sememe,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- serial,
- set forth,
- set out,
- sheet,
- sign,
- signature,
- signifiant,
- significant,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- sound,
- speech,
- stanza,
- state,
- statement,
- stock saying,
- strain,
- style,
- subject,
- subjoinder,
- sutra,
- symbol,
- syntax,
- tailpiece,
- talk,
- teaching,
- tell,
- term,
- text,
- theme,
- thought,
- throw off,
- token,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- type,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- utter,
- utterance,
- variation,
- verb phrase,
- verbalize,
- verbiage,
- verse,
- vocabulary,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- volume,
- way of speaking,
- whisper,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- word-group,
- wordage,
- wording,
- words of wisdom,
- write
- impropriety
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- an improper demeanor
- the condition of being improper related words >
- Babbittry,
- Gothicism,
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- atrocity,
- bad taste,
- badness,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- blunder,
- bombasticness,
- bourgeois taste,
- breach,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- camp,
- campiness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminality,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- deadly sin,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- discourtesy,
- disentitlement,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorderly conduct,
- disruption,
- disruptiveness,
- dysphemism,
- empty claim,
- empty title,
- enormity,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evil,
- excess,
- failure,
- false claim,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faux pas,
- felony,
- frowned-upon behavior,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- genocide,
- gracelessness,
- grossness,
- guilty act,
- harshness,
- heaviness,
- heavy sin,
- high camp,
- hooliganism,
- horseplay,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- illegality,
- immodesty,
- immorality,
- imprecision,
- improperness,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- inadmissibility,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inauspiciousness,
- incompatibility,
- inconcinnity,
- incongruity,
- incongruousness,
- inconvenience,
- incorrectness,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- inequitableness,
- inequity,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- inexpedience,
- inexpiable sin,
- infelicity,
- infraction,
- iniquitousness,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- inopportuneness,
- inopportunity,
- intempestivity,
- interruption,
- intrusion,
- invalid claim,
- irregularity,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- kitsch,
- lack of claim,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- lapse,
- lasciviousness,
- lateness,
- leadenness,
- lewdness,
- localism,
- low camp,
- maladjustment,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malum,
- mesalliance,
- minor wrong,
- misalliance,
- misbehavior,
- misconduct,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- mistake,
- mortal sin,
- naughtiness,
- no claim,
- nonfeasance,
- nonsanctioned behavior,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- philistinism,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- prematurity,
- roughhouse,
- roughness,
- rowdiness,
- rowdyism,
- rudeness,
- ruffianism,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- sinfulness,
- slang,
- slip,
- slipshod construction,
- stiltedness,
- suggestiveness,
- taboo word,
- tastelessness,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- turgidity,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- unchastity,
- uncongeniality,
- uncouthness,
- undeservedness,
- undeservingness,
- undueness,
- unentitledness,
- uneuphoniousness,
- unfavorableness,
- unfitness,
- unfittingness,
- unfortunateness,
- ungracefulness,
- unjustness,
- unlawfulness,
- unmeetness,
- unmeritedness,
- unpropitiousness,
- unrefinement,
- unrighteousness,
- unripeness,
- unseasonableness,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- untimeliness,
- unutterable sin,
- unwieldiness,
- vandalism,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- violation,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness,
- wickedness,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongfulness,
- wrongness
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