| 单词 | informal |
| 释义 | informal (once / 1080 pages) adj If something’s informal, it’s casual and relaxed and doesn’t follow any particular rules or conventions, whether that's a style of writing, or the dress code for your dinner party. If you have informal plans to see your friend, that means you’ll get together but you’re not sure when — you’ll figure it out later. Informal also means “casual,” like wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Informal writing or speech is the linguistic equivalent of wearing jeans and a t-shirt, with a relaxed tone and simple words. In an informal football club, you don't pay dues to anyone, you just show up at the park and play with whoever is there. WORD FAMILYinformal: informality, informally+/formal: formalest, formalise, formalism, formality, formalize, formally, formalness, formals, informal, semi-formal, semiformal/formalise: formalisation, formalised, formalising/formalism: formalisms, formalistic/formality: formalities/formalize: formalization, formalized, formalizes, formalizing/informality: informalities USAGE EXAMPLESThe House and Senate passed the bill Wednesday without a public hearing and without debate during informal sessions in both chambers. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) I added photographs and produced an informal booklet. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Informal soccer, cricket and baseball games currently are played at the site. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj not formal conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress an informal free-and-easy manner an informal gathering of friends Syn|Ant casual, daily, everyday appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions casual, free-and-easynatural and unstudied folksyvery informal and familiar unceremonial, unceremoniouswithout ceremony or formality formal being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) conventionalfollowing accepted customs and proprieties ceremonialmarked by pomp or ceremony or formality ceremonious, conventionalrigidly formal or bound by convention dress, full-dress(of an occasion) requiring formal clothes form-onlybeing a matter of form only; lacking substance dress, full-dresssuitable for formal occasions nominal, titularexisting in name only positive, prescribedformally laid down or imposed perfunctory, pro formaas a formality only black-tie, semi-formal, semiformalmoderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket buckram, starchy, stiffrigidly formal white-tierequiring white ties and tailcoats for men formal(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms 2adj having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere a relaxed informal manner Syn cozy, intimate friendly characteristic of or befitting a friend 3adj not officially recognized or controlled an informal agreement Syn loose unofficial not having official authority or sanction 4adj used of spoken and written language Syn|Ant colloquial, conversational characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation common, vernacular, vulgarbeing or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language epistolary, epistolatorywritten in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence slangyconstituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang subliterarynot written as or intended to be literature nonliterary, unliterarymarked by lack of affectation or pedantry unrhetoricalnot rhetorical formal (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms formalbeing in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) literaryappropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing rhetoricalgiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
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