colloquially
adjectiveHow to pronounce colloquially:
Definition of colloquially:
- colloquially (adjective):
- unacceptably informal
- used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation
Synonyms for colloquially:
conversationally
Antonyms for colloquially:
academically
brainily
cerebrally
cleverly
correctly
discerningly
donnishly
eruditely
esoterically
expertly
formally
intellectually
intelligently
knowledgeably
learnedly
literarily
literately
pedantically
reconditely
sagaciously
sagely
sapiently
sophisticatedly
standardly
stiltedly
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Here are some other common words that have 5 syllables, like colloquially does.
- colonisation
- colonization
- columbarium
- commemorations
- commissioner
- communicater
- communicating
- companionably
- competitiveness
- complementary
- confederacy
- congregational
- conjunctivitis
- consequences
- consequential
- conservatism
- consolidated
- contamination
- contextualized
- continentally
- continuousness
- contradistinction
- contraindications
- coxsackievirus
- cruciverbalist
- crystallization
- cynophobia
- dacryoadenitis
- debilitating
- decapitalize
- deceleration
- decomposition
- dedicatedly
- definitively
- degenerative
- delimitation
- deliverable
- demasculinize
- deregulation
- derogatory
- desalination
- desideratum
- determinative
- devanagari
- developmental
- diabolical
- diaeresis
- diaphoresis
- diatomaceous
- dicotyledon
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