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3 definitions 
 for informal
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Informal \In*form"al\, a. [Pref. in- not + formal.]
     1. 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, or visit.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Deranged in mind; out of one's senses. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              These poor informal women.            --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

  informal
       adj 1: not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal
              dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an
              informal gathering of friends" [ant: formal]
       2: not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal
          agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
          [syn: loose]
       3: used of spoken and written language [ant: formal]
       4: having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere;
          especially through smallness and informality; "had a cozy
          chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail
          lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate" [syn: cozy,
           intimate]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "informal":
     Bohemian, affable, beat, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, breakaway,
     careless, casual, chintzy, colloquial, common, conversational,
     cordial, degage, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, easy, easygoing, en deshabille, everyday, familiar,
     far out, folksy, free, free and easy, fringy, frowzy, frumpish,
     frumpy, garden-variety, gracious, grubby, haymish, heretical,
     heterodox, hippie, homely, homey, in dishabille, in rags,
     irregular, kinky, loose, lumpen, maverick, messy, mussy, natural,
     negligent, nonstandard, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat,
     offhand, offhanded, ordinary, original, plain, poky, private,
     ragged, raggedy, relaxed, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy,
     simple, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish,
     sociable, sordid, special, spoken, spontaneous, sporty, squalid,
     substandard, tacky, tattered, unaffected, unassuming, unauthorized,
     unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, uneducated,
     unfashionable, unkempt, unliterary, unneat, unofficial, unorthodox,
     unpretentious, unsightly, unstudied, untidy, vernacular, way out
  
  


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