Category:Thai terms by usage

Thai terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Thai archaic terms: Thai terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Thai childish terms: Thai terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Thai colloquialisms: Thai terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Thai dated terms: Thai terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Thai derogatory terms: Thai terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Thai dialectal terms: Thai terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Thai ecclesiastical terms: Thai terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Thai endearing terms: Thai terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Thai formal terms: Thai terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Thai gender-neutral terms: Thai terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
• Category:Thai higher register terms: Thai terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Thai honorific terms: Thai honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Thai humorous terms: Thai terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Thai informal terms: Thai terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Thai journalistic terms: Thai terms that are used especially in journalistic language, i.e. in newspapers and magazines.
• Category:Thai men's speech terms: Thai terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:Thai nonstandard terms: Thai terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Thai offensive terms: Thai terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Thai oxymorons: Thai terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
• Category:Thai poetic terms: Thai terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Thai polite terms: Thai polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Thai proscribed terms: Thai terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Thai royal terms: Thai terms used only by royalty.
• Category:Thai self-deprecatory terms: Thai self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Thai short forms: Thai terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Thai slang: Thai colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Thai terms of address: Thai terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:Thai terms with archaic senses: Thai terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Thai terms with historical senses: Thai terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Thai terms with obsolete senses: Thai terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Thai terms with rare senses: Thai rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Thai trademarks: Thai terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Thai vulgarities: Thai terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:Thai women's speech terms: Thai terms and forms used in women's speech.