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What is "verbal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does verbal mean in English? Meaning of verbal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "verbal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "verbal": communicated in the form of words

Adjective

  • Meaning: communicated in the form of words
  • Example: verbal imagery a verbal protest
  • Synonyms: verbal
  • Similar: communicative communicatory

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

    Meaning of "verbal": of or relating to or formed from words in general

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to or formed from words in general
  • Example: verbal ability
  • Synonyms: verbal

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

    Meaning of "verbal": of or relating to or formed from a verb

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to or formed from a verb
  • Example: verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'
  • Synonyms: verbal

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

    Meaning of "verbal": relating to or having facility in the use of words

    Adjective

  • Meaning: relating to or having facility in the use of words
  • Example: a good poet is a verbal artist a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound verbal aptitude
  • Synonyms: verbal
  • Antonyms: mathematical numerical

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

    Meaning of "verbal": expressed in spoken words

    Adjective

  • Meaning: expressed in spoken words
  • Example: a verbal contract
  • Synonyms: verbal
  • Similar: spoken

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

    Meaning of "verbal": prolix

    Adjective

  • Meaning: prolix
  • Example: you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal
  • Synonyms: verbal
  • Similar: prolix

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR

    Hyphenation: ver‧bal

  • Adjective: Of or relating to words.Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.Consisting of words only. Mayhew 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 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.Expressly spoken rather than written. a verbal contract; verbal testimony(grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.(grammar) Used to form a verb.Capable of speech. 2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55) How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55) How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?Word for word; literal; verbatim. a verbal translation(obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

    • Synonyms:

    rhetorical, unwritten, exact, literal, oral, said, stated, verbatim, expressed, lexical, lingual, phrasal, told, word-for-word, word-of-mouth,

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