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pseudocolloquial

pseudocolloquial is the alternative form of pseudo-colloquial.

Meaning of pseudo-colloquial

Adjective

pseudo-colloquial

  1. Apparently, but not actually, colloquial.
    • Robert Lowell, first announcing flatly that Racine is untranslatable, puts his Alexandrines into speakable, nontinkling English couplets, a great feat and one that goes far to contradict his own statement. Jacques Barzun’s translation of Beaumarchais is properly sparky and pseudocolloquial, but...1961 August, Phoebe Lou Adams, “Potpourri”, in The Atlantic

Questions about pseudocolloquial

What is pseudocolloquial the alternative form of?
Pseudocolloquial is the alternative form of pseudo-colloquial.

Words near pseudocolloquial in the dictionary

  1. pseudocoeloms
  2. pseudocoels
  3. pseudocoelum
  4. pseudocollarable
  5. pseudocollegiate
  6. pseudocolloquial
  7. pseudocolonial
  8. pseudocolonialism
  9. pseudocolonies
  10. pseudocolonization
  11. pseudocolonizations

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