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- pronunciation:
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
When something is informal, it is relaxed in style and feeling. A T-shirt is an informal type of clothing, but a suit that someone wears to work is not. If you go to a very informal wedding, it might be OK to wear a T-shirt, but most weddings require more formal clothes.
Mariana and her sister are not allowed to wear informal clothes when they go to church. They always wear dresses and nice shoes, but when they get back home they put on their jeans and sneakers.- synonyms:
- casual
- antonyms:
- formal, stiff
- similar words:
- everyday, natural, plain, simple
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| definition 2: |
When we talk to our good friends, we usually use informal words. Informal language is language we use when we are talking with people we feel very comfortable with. We don't feel we have to be completely polite or perfect in the way we speak. We can talk in a very relaxed way. When we say "Hey! What's up?" we're talking in informal language. In a more formal way, we might say "Hello. How are you?"
Some words have a more informal feeling to them than others. For example, "mom" is an informal word for "mother."Documents that lawyers write do not usually use informal language.- similar words:
- common, everyday, familiar
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| derivation: |
informally (adv.) |
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