Synonyms: informal
Definition: not formal
Usage: conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress; an informal free-and-easy manner; an informal gathering of friends
Similar words: daily, everyday, casual
Definition: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
Usage: casual clothes; everyday clothes
Similar words: casual, free-and-easy
Definition: natural and unstudied
Usage: using their Christian names in a casual way; lectured in a free-and-easy style
Similar words: folksy
Definition: very informal and familiar
Usage: a folksy radio commentator; a folksy style
Similar words: unceremonial, unceremonious
Definition: without ceremony or formality
Usage: an unceremonious speech
Synonyms: informal
Definition: used of spoken and written language
Similar words: conversational, colloquial
Definition: characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
Usage: wrote her letters in a colloquial style; the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English
Similar words: common, vernacular, vulgar
Definition: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
Usage: common parlance; a vernacular term; vernacular speakers; the vulgar tongue of the masses; the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
Similar words: epistolary, epistolatory
Definition: written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
Usage: an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs; the epistolatory novel
Similar words: slangy
Definition: constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang
Usage: a slangy expression; slangy speech
Similar words: subliterary
Definition: not written as or intended to be literature
Usage: subliterary works such as letters and diaries
Similar words: unliterary, nonliterary
Definition: marked by lack of affectation or pedantry
Usage: her talk was very unliterary- W.D.Howells
Synonyms: cozy, informal, intimate
Definition: having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
Usage: had a cozy chat; a relaxed informal manner; an intimate cocktail lounge; the small room was cozy and intimate
Similar words: friendly
Definition: characteristic of or befitting a friend
Usage: friendly advice; a friendly neighborhood; the only friendly person here; a friendly host and hostess
Definition: not officially recognized or controlled
Usage: an informal agreement; a loose organization of the local farmers
Similar words: unofficial
Definition: not having official authority or sanction
Usage: a sort of unofficial mayor; an unofficial estimate; he participated in an unofficial capacity