informal style
Laid-back approach overall
Informal style is language suited to casual situations—conversations with friends, personal emails, relaxed writing.
It permits contractions, slang, sentence fragments, and colloquialisms that formal style would prohibit.
The essay's informal style made complex ideas accessible.
Most speech is informal; formality is the marked choice.
- friendlinessWarm, welcoming disposition
- casual toneRelaxed, everyday speech manner
- contractionsShortened word forms
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- urban slangInformal city vocabulary
colloquialism · locker room talk · warmth · memes · humor · regional dialects · pop culture references · conversational language · improvisation · storytelling circles · idioms · shoot the breeze · abbreviations · spontaneity · no filter · keeping it real · authenticity · small talk
- plain languageplain language, plain English, plain text, plain talk, plain speech
- writing stylesminimalism, maximalism, concise, descriptive, narrative
- landscaping termsmulching, edging, borders, ground cover, hardscape
- Stylisticsdiction, word choice, register, tone, figurative language
- writing stylediction, tone, prose, flair, word choice
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
informal styleformal
Following strict protocol
formal tone · buttoned-up · stiff · ceremonial · starched
informal stylebusiness formal
Conservative professional attire standard
black-tie · white-tie · military bearing · state occasion · high church
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