Fromin- +formal.
informal (comparativemoreinformal,superlativemostinformal)
- Notformal orceremonious.
aninformal get-together
1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by hisinformal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis[…] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI, page 4:Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed andinformal setting.
2025 August 20, Ashlyn Barry, Justin A. Haegele, Daniel Schaefer, Kristen A. Pickett, Luis Columna, “Autistic Young Adults’ Experiences and Recommendations for Strength Training”, inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders[1],→DOI:Participants emphasized the importance of their social network in facilitating their strength training experiences. Family members served asinformal coaches who introduced the participants to basic exercises. This role, where family members model healthy behaviors, has been identified as being important to help supporting PA participation among autistic individuals in prior work (Ku et al., 2020; Shields et al., 2012).
- Not inaccord with theusualregulations.
aninformal agreement
- Suited foreveryday use.
informal clothes
- (of language) Reflectingeveryday, non-ceremonioususage.
2025 August 14, Saranka Maheswaran, “Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it’s not worthless”, inThe Guardian[2]:When I returned to the movieGhilli, a Kollywood classic (Kollywood being theinformal name for Tamil cinema) that I loved as a kid, I couldn’t help but question why the story continues romantically, without question, after the heroine is slapped by the supposed love of her life.
- (horticulture) Notorganized; notstructured orplanned.
- (not formal or ceremonious):casual
- (not in accord with the usual regulations):unofficial
- (suited for everyday use):casual
- (language: reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage):colloquial
not formal or ceremonious
- Belarusian:нефарма́льны(njefarmálʹny),неафіцы́йны(njeaficýjny)
- Bulgarian:неформа́лен(neformálen),неофициа́лен (bg)(neoficiálen)
- Catalan:informal (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:非正式 (zh)(fēizhèngshì)
- Czech:neformální (cs)
- Esperanto:neformala
- Finnish:epämuodollinen (fi)
- French:informel (fr)
- Galician:informal (gl)
- Georgian:არაფორმალური(arapormaluri)
- German:informell (de),unförmlich,zwanglos (de)
- Greek:φιλικός (el)(filikós)
- Hindi:अनौपचारिक(anaupcārik)
- Hungarian:közvetlen (hu)
- Icelandic:óformlegur (is)
- Irish:neamhnósúil
- Italian:informale (it)
- Japanese:非公式の (ja)(hikōshiki no),日常の (ja)(nichijō no),普段の (ja)(fudan no),褻の (ja)(ke no)
- Kazakh:бейресми(beiresmi)
- Malay:informal
- Manx:neuformoil
- Maori:ōpaki,hāramuramu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:uhøytidelig
- Occitan:informal (oc)
- Polish:potoczny (pl),nieformalny (pl)
- Portuguese:informal (pt)
- Romanian:informal (ro)
- Russian:неформа́льный (ru)(neformálʹnyj),неофициа́льный (ru)(neoficiálʹnyj),непринуждённый (ru)(neprinuždjónnyj)
- Spanish:informal (es)
- Swedish:informell (sv)
- Tagalog:dimaanyo
- Thai:ไม่เป็นทางการ
- Turkish:teklifsiz (tr)
- Ukrainian:неформа́льний(neformálʹnyj),неофіці́йний(neoficíjnyj)
- Welsh:anffurfiol (cy)
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not in accord with the usual regulations
language: reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage
Fromin- +formal.
informal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralinformals)
- informal
informal m orf (pluralinformais)
- informal
- Antonym:formal
FromEnglishinformal. Bysurface analysis,in- +formal.
- IPA(key): [in.fɔ(r).məl],[in.fo(r).mal]
- Rhymes:-əl,-al
- Hyphenation:in‧for‧mal
informal (Jawi spellingاينفورمل)
- Notformal;informal.
informal m orf (pluralinformais)
- informal(not formal or ceremonious)
- “informal” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Borrowed fromEnglishinformal orFrenchinformel.
informal m orn (feminine singularinformală,masculine pluralinformali,feminine and neuter pluralinformale)
- informal
- IPA(key): /infoɾˈmal/[ĩɱ.foɾˈmal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:in‧for‧mal
informal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralinformales)
- informal
- Antonym:formal
