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informally

[in-fawr-muh-lee] / ɪnˈfɔr mə li /
ADVERB
casually
Synonyms
STRONGEST
carelessly coolly indifferently
WEAK
lackadaisically offhandedly reservedly unconcernedly unemotionally
ADVERB
intimately
Synonyms
STRONGEST
personally
STRONG
well
WEAK
confidentially familiarly lovingly privately secretly
Antonyms
WEAK
openly publicly reservedly
ADVERB
naturally
Synonyms
STRONGEST
commonly consistently easily generally instinctively normally simply spontaneously typically uniformly usually
WEAK
artlessly but of course by birth by nature candidly casually characteristically customarily freely genuinely habitually impulsively innocently openly ordinarily readily unaffectedly unpretentiously
Antonyms
STRONGEST
difficultly unusually
WEAK
affectedly unnaturally

Example Sentences

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The plans—advancing informally through side discussions and over dinner meetings in and around the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—aren’t intended to rival the current alliance, participants said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Altman in early 2025 asked former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to informally consult a team inside OpenAI working on making a social-media project similar to X, according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Milei’s financiers have started informally dickering with investors over pricing the next issue, which should fly around current yields in a market hungry for emerging market exposure, Grills predicts.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

And fewer people are wearing blazers and ties to work after the pandemic led to people dressing more informally for the office.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Maddie could see that it was all set up as informally and cozily as it was possible to make this bleak little room.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein