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nonstandard: not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence; "a nonstandard text"; varying from or not adhering to a standard; "nonstandard windows"; "envelopes of nonstandard sizes"; "nonstandard lengths of board"; not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap

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

spoken collapse: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken"

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

varying collapse: marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"

diversified collapse: having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety; "a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern"; "diversified farming"; "diversified manufacturing"; "diversified scenery"; "diversified investments"

everyday collapse: commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"; found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

informal collapse: not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"; used of spoken and written language; not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"

unstudied collapse: lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"; not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"

unsystematic collapse: lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization; "unsystematic and fragmentary records"; "he works in an unsystematic manner"

pluralistic collapse: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism; "a pluralistic culture"

mutable collapse: capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

choppy collapse: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"; marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

unorthodox collapse: breaking with convention or tradition; "an unorthodox lifestyle"

divaricate collapse: spread apart; "divaricate one's fingers"; branch off; "The road divaricates here"

jagged collapse: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"

unequal collapse: poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure

sporadic collapse: recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

disorderly collapse: undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"; in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"

vernacular collapse: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

variable collapse: a quantity that can assume any of a set of values; a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity; something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"; (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; "a variable capacitor"; "variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"; liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses"

different collapse: differing from all others; not ordinary; "advertising that strives continually to be different"; "this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it"; unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"; distinctly separate from the first; "that's another (or different) issue altogether"; distinct or separate; "each interviewed different members of the community"

uneven collapse: not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"

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