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informal
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Word definitions for informal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Informal \In*form"al\, a. [Pref. in- not + formal.] Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writing, proceeding, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "lacking form; not in accordance with the rules of formal logic," from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + formal . Meaning "irregular, unofficial" is from c.1600. Sense of "done without ceremony" is from 1828. Related: Informally .
Usage examples of informal.
Israel that as Ameen of Tangier he had doubled the custom revenues in half a year, invited him to fill an informal, unofficial, and irregular position as assessor of tributes.
The gipsies return from their rambling soon after the end of hop-picking, and hold a kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, and all the clumsy games that extract money from clumsy hands.
Tonight they were going to an informal gathering at the home of Harriette Wilson, queen of the London demireps, and for the first time Diana would be offering herself in the market.
Normally that would have made little difference in the informal Madeiran society.
Ky picked out ship boots, dock boots, formal and informal shoes for nonbusiness wear.
I relaxed my speech to the informal Pisces dialect used for air-breathers.
De Lisle was about to fly out again, but had decided to call the officers of Operation Ratcatcher together for a last, informal meeting.
The Roentgenologist, despite his eyes, made no objections to this informal suggestion.
I donned an informal casque, then took a smallsword down from the wall and belted it on.
It was an afternoon affair with an informal potluck-style meal afterward in the church hall, when the motley friends rubbed shoulders and piled their rented plates high with dishes ranging from tamale pie and Jell-O salad to spanakopita, vegetarian spring rolls, and hummus.
It was as informal now as any Orthean place of work, the tables piled with papers and broadsheets as well as tapes, graphs pinned to the wall-hangings beside old illuminated maps, haphazard cartography beside satellite-survey prints.
While bedridden, he recast his informal letter to Castelli into a much longer, more referenced treatise addressed to Madama Cristina herself.
The naval districts handled administrative matters within their territories: the pursuit and apprehension of deserters, trials and court-martials, formal and informal JAG investigations, the appointment and support of CACOs, administration of transient barracks and brigs, and the general personnel and administrative infrastructure support for all the Navy commands located within the district.
She passes familiar stations, nodes and virtual spaces that are shops and meeting grounds and informal brokers of one thing or another, but no one seems to notice.
There is no one for the Soviets to deal withleaders of sharply deteriorating caliber, beset by democracy, by politics, and doing six-month stints between midterm elections, lame-duck periods, and the informal referenda of American public life.