'Verbal' definitions:
Definition of 'verbal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
adjective
Of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability"
adjective
Of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
adjective
Relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude" [ant: mathematical, numerical]
adjective
Expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
adjective
Prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
Definition of 'Verbal'
From: GCIDE
- Verbal \Ver"bal\, n. (Gram.) A noun derived from a verb. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Verbal'
From: GCIDE
- Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See Verb.]
- 1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony. [1913 Webster]
- Made she no verbal question? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. --Mayhew. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change. [1913 Webster]
- And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix. [1913 Webster]
- Verbal inspiration. See under Inspiration.
- Verbal noun (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See Gerund, and -ing, 2. See also, Infinitive mood, under Infinitive. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'verbal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- answering,
- articulated,
- attributive,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- colloquial,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conjunctive,
- conversational,
- copulative,
- correct,
- dinkum,
- enunciated,
- expressed,
- following the letter,
- formal,
- functional,
- genuine,
- glossematic,
- good,
- grammatic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- iconic,
- inartificial,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intransitive,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lexemic,
- lexical,
- lifelike,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- literal,
- morphemic,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nominal,
- nuncupative,
- oral,
- original,
- parol,
- participial,
- phrasal,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- pronounced,
- pure,
- questioning,
- real,
- realistic,
- responsive,
- rightful,
- said,
- semantic,
- semantological,
- semasiological,
- sememic,
- semiotic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- sterling,
- structural,
- substantive,
- sure-enough,
- symbolic,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- telepathic,
- traditional,
- transitive,
- transmissional,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- viva voce,
- vocabular,
- vocabulary,
- vocal,
- vocalized,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- word,
- word-for-word,
- word-of-mouth