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colloquializing

colloquializing adjective: converting into a colloquial or informal register. Also the present participle and gerund of colloquialize.

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
    • The present analysis, focused on genre categories and pragmatic aims, shows that the colloquialising force of the semi-modal does not work in isolation.2009, Antoinette Renouf, Andrew Kehoe (eds), Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessment, page 309

Also used as

colloquializing is also the present participle and gerund of colloquialize.

Forms of colloquializing

comparativemore colloquializing
superlativemost colloquializing

Questions about colloquializing

What does colloquializing mean?
Colloquializing means converting into a colloquial or informal register.
What part of speech is colloquializing?
Colloquializing is an adjective.

Words near colloquializing in the dictionary

  1. colloquialization
  2. colloquializations
  3. colloquialize
  4. colloquialized
  5. colloquializes
  6. colloquializing
  7. colloquially
  8. colloquialness
  9. colloquials
  10. colloquied
  11. colloquies

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