Definitions for informal

informal in·for·mal

Spelling: [in-fawr-muh l]
IPA: /ɪnˈfɔr məl/

Informal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 359 anagrams from letters in informal (afilmnor).

Definitions for informal

adjective

  1. without formality or ceremony; casual:
  2. not according to the prescribed, official, or customary way or manner; irregular; unofficial:
  3. suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated, speech or writing.
  4. Grammar. characterizing the second singular pronominal or verbal form, or its use, in certain languages:

Origin of informal

First recorded in 1595-1605; in-3 + formal1

Examples for informal

Such an invitation is acknowledged in kind—by an informal note.

Burt is part of an informal, unpaid foreign policy team who regularly briefs Paul on international issues.

And in informal talks, Chinese leaders have compared hackers on both sides to unruly children who can only barely be controlled.

In Bengali this word has come to mean an informal uninvited gathering.

La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.

informal workers make up  over half the workforce in much of urban African.

She alludes to jobs like street sweeping and garbage collecting being done by informal workers rather than the government.

"Quite an informal affair," she said, in announcing her intention.

Now and then he appeared at some professor's informal reception.

I tell him I have "informal" news from the French but dare not take action on that.

Word Value for informal
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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