Synonyms for Informal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • loose,
  • informal.
  •breezy (adjective)
  • most easy-going,
  • in formal,
  • more low-pressure,
  • un constrained,
  • more lowpressure,
  • lowpressure,
  • more easy-going,
  • un-constrained,
  • most low pressure,
  • more easy going,
  • most low-pressure,
  • most lowpressure,
  • most easy going,
  • more low pressure,
  • in-formal.
  •casual (adjective)
  • un-concerned,
  • more pococurante,
  • in curious,
  • un concerned,
  • uninterested,
  • insouciant,
  • in-different,
  • with drawn,
  • un fussiest,
  • un fussy,
  • with-drawn,
  • un fussier,
  • un interested,
  • folksy,
  • laidback,
  • unfussiest,
  • most pococurante,
  • re-mote,
  • unfussier,
  • un-fussier,
  • in different,
  • un-interested,
  • down home,
  • un-fussiest,
  • in-curious,
  • un-fussy.
  •casual, simple (adjective)
  • ordinary,
  • open,
  • inconspicuous,
  • easy,
  • everyday,
  • frank,
  • mixed,
  • without ceremony,
  • homey,
  • congenial,
  • colloquial,
  • urbane,
  • mellow,
  • motley,
  • intimate,
  • extempore,
  • straightforward,
  • throwaway,
  • unconstrained,
  • unceremonious.
  •chatty (adjective)
  • friendly,
  • most looselipped,
  • gossipy,
  • most loose lipped,
  • loose lipped,
  • looselipped,
  • more multieloquent,
  • multi eloquent,
  • multi-eloquent,
  • most loose-lipped,
  • more looselipped,
  • more loose lipped,
  • more loose-lipped,
  • most multieloquent.
  •colloquial (adjective)
  • idiomatic,
  • slang,
  • conversational.
  •common (adjective)
  • re-gular,
  • more workaday,
  • trivial,
  • most workaday,
  • prevailing,
  • habitual,
  • more prevalent,
  • uni versal,
  • pre vailing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • uni-versal,
  • most worn out,
  • re gular,
  • general,
  • more unvaried,
  • un-varied,
  • most comformable,
  • most unvaried,
  • un-distinguished,
  • stereo typed,
  • more comformable,
  • un varied,
  • stocker,
  • stereo-typed,
  • more frequent,
  • un distinguished.
  •conversational (adjective)
  • long winded.
  •democratic (adjective)
  • individualistic,
  • self-ruling,
  • populist,
  • libertarian.
  •down to earth (adjective)
  • most sober-minded,
  • soberminded,
  • plainspoken,
  • down earth,
  • more sober minded,
  • more sober-minded,
  • most sober minded,
  • most soberminded,
  • more soberminded,
  • sober minded.
  •easy (adjective)
  • un pretentious,
  • un-pretentious,
  • good natured,
  • un-demanding,
  • goodnatured,
  • goodtempered,
  • most unanxious,
  • un-forced,
  • un demanding,
  • un forced,
  • un-anxious,
  • most undemanding,
  • un-affected,
  • un anxious,
  • more undemanding,
  • un affected,
  • unanxious,
  • more unanxious,
  • good tempered.
  •easygoing (adjective)
  • out giving,
  • more hang-loose,
  • eventempered,
  • more hang loose,
  • out-giving,
  • more poised,
  • most poised,
  • even tempered,
  • devil may care,
  • un-hurried,
  • more hangloose,
  • selfpossessed,
  • indolent,
  • more outgiving,
  • un hurried,
  • most hang-loose,
  • self possessed,
  • happy go lucky,
  • hangloose,
  • most hangloose,
  • un critical,
  • un-critical,
  • most outgiving,
  • most hang loose.
  •everyday (adjective)
  • un remarkable,
  • most whitebread,
  • dime dozen,
  • unexceptional,
  • un exceptional,
  • mainstream,
  • un-imaginative,
  • more whitebread,
  • un-exceptional,
  • un-remarkable,
  • un imaginative.
  •extemporaneous (adjective)
  • most autoschediastic,
  • more autoschediastic.
  •extemporaneous/extemporary (adjective)
  • most jamming,
  • un premeditated,
  • off cuff,
  • most on-the-spot,
  • more jamming,
  • off the top of head,
  • more improvisatory,
  • madeup,
  • jamming,
  • most on the spot,
  • ex temporary,
  • most improviso,
  • snappest,
  • off the top head,
  • more on the spot,
  • un planned,
  • un prepared,
  • more on-the-spot,
  • un-planned,
  • un-prepared,
  • un-studied,
  • un studied,
  • most improvisatory,
  • most improv,
  • off top head,
  • un-premeditated,
  • more improv,
  • ex-temporary,
  • more improviso.
  •familiar (adjective)
  • palsiest,
  • palsywalsy,
  • buddy buddy,
  • intrusive,
  • most buddy buddy,
  • most free-and-easy,
  • palsier,
  • more free-and-easy,
  • most buddy-buddy,
  • more buddy-buddy,
  • palsy walsy,
  • re-cognizable,
  • most free and easy,
  • more buddybuddy,
  • re cognizable,
  • more buddy buddy,
  • buddybuddy,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • recognizable,
  • more familiar,
  • un-reserved,
  • un sophisticated,
  • more free and easy,
  • officious,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • most buddybuddy,
  • un ceremonious,
  • most recognizable,
  • repeated,
  • un-sophisticated,
  • more recognizable.
  •free (adjective)
  • unhampered,
  • independent,
  • off the hook,
  • free-spirited,
  • on one's own,
  • freest,
  • at liberty,
  • on own,
  • untrammeled,
  • free-wheeling,
  • at large,
  • free spirited,
  • unengaged,
  • freewheeling,
  • on the loose.
  •free and easy (adjective)
  • booner,
  • most nonformal,
  • boonest,
  • free easy,
  • footloose and fancy free,
  • footloose and fancyfree,
  • free as wind,
  • non-formal,
  • free as bird,
  • more nonformal,
  • footloose fancyfree,
  • footloose fancy free,
  • footloose fancy-free,
  • non formal.
  •homely (adjective)
  • un assuming,
  • more inelaborate,
  • in-elaborate,
  • in elaborate,
  • most homelike,
  • unassuming,
  • un-assuming,
  • more homelike,
  • un ostentatious,
  • un-ostentatious,
  • most inelaborate.
  •offhand (adjective)
  • off the hip,
  • without preparation,
  • unrehearsed.
  •outgoing (adjective)
  • out-going,
  • un-restrained,
  • outgoing,
  • more extrovert,
  • most extrovert,
  • out going,
  • out goingest,
  • out-goinger,
  • out goinger,
  • out-goingest.
  •practical (adjective)
  • down to earth.
  •relaxed (adjective)
  • free and easy.
  •sporty (adjective)
  • glitzy,
  • glittery.
  •spur-of-the-moment (adjective)
  • spur of the moment,
  • spur-of-the-moment.
  •succinct (adjective)
  • stark,
  • prosaic,
  • uncluttered,
  • outspoken,
  • simple,
  • candid,
  • unadorned,
  • clear,
  • unpretentious,
  • unpoetical,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • blunt,
  • intelligible,
  • direct,
  • bald,
  • honest.
  •unconventional (adjective)
  • un commonest,
  • non conformist,
  • wayout,
  • un-common,
  • un conventional,
  • un usual,
  • avant garde,
  • un common,
  • un-commoner,
  • in-dividual,
  • most anarchistic,
  • in dividual,
  • most weirdo,
  • out left field,
  • farout,
  • most uncustomary,
  • more anarchistic,
  • out of ordinary,
  • un commoner,
  • off wall,
  • avantgarde,
  • out ordinary,
  • un-usual,
  • un-conventional,
  • un-customary,
  • more weirdo,
  • un customary,
  • more uncustomary.
  •uninhibited (adjective)
  • unselfconscious,
  • uncurbed,
  • unrepressed,
  • unself-conscious,
  • unsuppressed.
  •unofficial (adjective)
  • uncorroborated,
  • unsanctioned,
  • unconfirmed.
  •vernacular (adjective)
  • plebian,
  • most plebian,
  • more plebian,
  • in-grained.

• a. & adv.

  •outdoor (adjective, adverb)
  • yarder,
  • hilltop.

• adv.

  •outdoor (adverb)
  • more nature-loving,
  • nature loving,
  • most hilltop,
  • more patio,
  • out door,
  • most nature loving,
  • most out of doors,
  • more picnic,
  • more alfresco,
  • more natureloving,
  • more out of doors,
  • more nature loving,
  • most natureloving,
  • most mountain,
  • out side,
  • most patio,
  • natureloving,
  • out-door,
  • out the house,
  • woodsest,
  • yardest,
  • out house,
  • more mountain,
  • more hilltop,
  • most nature-loving,
  • woodser,
  • most garden,
  • more out-of-doors,
  • most out-of-doors.

• adv

  •outdoor (adverb)
  • out of the house,
  • nature-loving,
  • in the open,
  • out-of-doors,
  • alfresco,
  • out of doors.

• n.

  •
  • black tie,
  • unrestrained,
  • spontaneous,
  • plain,
  • by invitation (only),
  • tighten,
  • the more the merrier.
  •
  • cool,
  • chatty,
  • at one with,
  • nonchalant,
  • chilled,
  • composed,
  • words,
  • calm.
  •downbeat (noun)
  • downbeat.
  •epistolary (noun)
  • epistolary.
  •epistolatory (noun)
  • epistolatory.
  •informal (noun)
  • unceremonial,
  • subliterary,
  • unliterary,
  • vulgar,
  • nonliterary,
  • slangy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • triumphal,
  • faceless,
  • headquartered,
  • regulatory,
  • offhand,
  • Confabulatory,
  • structured,
  • self-regulatory,
  • white tie,
  • laid-back,
  • bacchanalian,
  • BYOB.
  •
  • matriarchal,
  • established,
  • tiered,
  • patriarchal,
  • fraternal,
  • governing,
  • structural,
  • centrally.
  •
  • central.
  •
  • umbrella.
  •
  • natural.
  •
  • flat.
  •cozy
  • cozy.
  •without formality
  • unstudied,
  • restrained.

Paraphrases for Informal:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unofficial, non-formal, non-official.
  • Proper noun, singular
    unofficial, non-formal, non-official.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    non-formal.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    formal.
  • Proper noun, singular
    formal.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    informality.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    informational, unorganised, nonprofessional, improvised, atypical, semi-official, non-institutional, spontaneous, makeshift, parallel, extrajudicial, extracurricular, unregulated, unconventional, officious, non-documented, non-conventional, non-traditional, non-governmental, non-regulated, untrained, extra-curricular, amiable, after-school, extra-judicial, out-of-court, unincorporated, non-formalized, impromptu, non-regular.
  • Proper noun, singular
    visits.
  • Noun, plural
    delegations, homes.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    lies.

Antonyms for Informal:

• adj.

  • all
    formal.
  • casual, simple
    official, dressed-up, rigid, stiff, buttoned-up, ceremonious.
  • Other antonyms:
    standard, unfriendly, best, tidy, constrained, educated, grammatical, trim, routine, smart, stylish, inhibited, stuffy, restrained, fashionable, neat, uptight, elegant, chic.