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colloquialising

colloquialising is the alternative spelling of colloquializing.

colloquialising is the present participle and gerund of colloquialise.

Meaning of colloquializing

Adjective

colloquializing (comparative more colloquializing, superlative most colloquializing)

  1. converting into a colloquial or informal register.
    • In course of time this mixed language becomes again standardized and the colloquializing process is repeated.1989, Harivallabh Chunilal Bhayani, Apabhraṁśa Language and Literature: A Short Introduction, page 3

Forms of colloquialising

comparativemore colloquialising
superlativemost colloquialising

Questions about colloquialising

What is colloquialising the alternative spelling of?
Colloquialising is the alternative spelling of colloquializing.

Words near colloquialising in the dictionary

  1. colloquialisation
  2. colloquialisations
  3. colloquialise
  4. colloquialised
  5. colloquialises
  6. colloquialising
  7. colloquialism
  8. colloquialisms
  9. colloquialist
  10. colloquialists
  11. colloquialities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colloquialising (page history and authors); colloquializing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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