Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

not formal

"conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"

informal

is derived from

informality

antonym

formal

is similar to

appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

"casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

casual, daily, everyday

is similar to

natural and unstudied

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

casual, free-and-easy

is similar to

very informal and familiar

"a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"

folksy

is similar to

without ceremony or formality

"an unceremonious speech"

unceremonial, unceremonious

see also

used of spoken and written language

informal

is an attribute of

a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies

"the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention"

formality, formalness

not officially recognized or controlled

"an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"

informal, loose

used of spoken and written language

informal

antonym

formal

is similar to

characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

colloquial, conversational

is similar to

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"

common, vernacular, vulgar

is similar to

written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence

"an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel"

epistolary, epistolatory

is similar to

constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang

"a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"

slangy

is similar to

not written as or intended to be literature

"subliterary works such as letters and diaries"

subliterary

is similar to

marked by lack of affectation or pedantry

"her talk was very unliterary"- W.D.Howells

nonliterary, unliterary

informal

adjectives