quasi-informal

adjective

without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.

not according to the prescribed, official, or customary way or manner; irregular; unofficial: informal proceedings.

suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated, speech or writing.

Grammar. characterizing the second singular pronominal or verbal form, or its use, in certain languages: the informal tu in French.

Origin:
1595–1605; in-³ + formal¹

Related forms

in·for·mal·ly, adverb

qua·si-in·for·mal, adjective

qua·si-in·for·mal·ly, adverb

su·per·in·for·mal, adjective

su·per·in·for·mal·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. natural, easy. 2. unconventional. 3. See colloquial.

Antonyms
2. conventional.

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informal (ɪnˈfɔːməl)

—*adj*
1.	not of a formal, official, or stiffly conventional nature: an informal luncheon
2.	appropriate to everyday life or use: informal clothes
3.	denoting or characterized by idiom, vocabulary, etc, appropriate to everyday conversational language rather than to formal written language
4.	denoting a second-person pronoun in some languages used when the addressee is regarded as a friend or social inferior: In French the pronoun "tu" is informal, while "vous" is formal

in'formally

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

informal

1608, "irregular, unofficial," from in- "not" + formal (q.v.). Sense of "done without ceremony" is from 1828.

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"In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future—with a shopping center for twice the population, with a school building already built, with churches constructed, with parks and playgrounds and swimming pools. These were as essential to building a suburb as the prematurely grand hotel had been to building a city in the wilderness. In large developments where the developer had a plan, and even in the smaller developments, there was a new kind of paternalism: not the quasi-feudal paternalism of the company town, nor the paternalism of the utopian ideologue. This new kind of paternalism was fostered by the American talent for organization, by the rising twentieth century American standard of living, and by the American genius for mass production. It was the paternalism of the market place. The suburban developer, unlike the small-town booster, seldom intended to live in the community he was building. For him community was a commodity, a product to be sold at a profit."

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