informal

3 definitions found

informal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Informal \In*form"al\, a. [Pref. in- not + formal.]
     1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not
        according to official, conventional, prescribed, or
        customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without
        ceremony; as, an informal writing, proceeding, or visit.
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     2. Deranged in mind; out of one's senses. [Obs.]
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              These poor informal women.            --Shak.
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informal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  informal
      adj 1: not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal
             dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal
             gathering of friends" [ant: formal]
      2: not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal
         agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn:
         informal, loose]
      3: used of spoken and written language [ant: formal]
      4: having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal
         atmosphere; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner";
         "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and
         intimate" [syn: cozy, intimate, informal]

informal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "informal":
     Bohemian, affable, beat, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, breakaway,
     careless, casual, chintzy, colloquial, common, conversational,
     cordial, degage, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, easy, easygoing, en deshabille, everyday, familiar,
     far out, folksy, free, free and easy, fringy, frowzy, frumpish,
     frumpy, garden-variety, gracious, grubby, haymish, heretical,
     heterodox, hippie, homely, homey, in dishabille, in rags,
     irregular, kinky, loose, lumpen, maverick, messy, mussy, natural,
     negligent, nonstandard, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat,
     offhand, offhanded, ordinary, original, plain, poky, private,
     ragged, raggedy, relaxed, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy,
     simple, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish,
     sociable, sordid, special, spoken, spontaneous, sporty, squalid,
     substandard, tacky, tattered, unaffected, unassuming, unauthorized,
     unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, uneducated,
     unfashionable, unkempt, unliterary, unneat, unofficial, unorthodox,
     unpretentious, unsightly, unstudied, untidy, vernacular, way out