Ordinary language

Synonyms for "ordinary language" (14 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Adjective(3 words)
clear languagecolloquial languagecommon language

Strong matches (4)

Adjective(4 words)
common speecheveryday languageeveryday natural languageeveryday speech

Related words (7)

Adjective(6 words)
general languagenatural languagenontechnical discourseplain languageplain speechsimple language
Adverb(1 words)
more natural language

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

5 entries
communicationhuman languagelanguagelanguage uselinguistic style

More specific

7 entries
colloquial languagecolloquial speechconversational styleeveryday conversationeveryday speechplain talksimple language

Collocations

8 entries
colloquial languagecommon languagecommon speecheveryday languagenontechnical languageplain languageplain talksimple language

Inflections

3 entries
more ordinary languagemost ordinary languageordinary languages

Derivations

4 entries