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verbal

  • adjective
  • ver·bal
  • vûrʹ-bəl

Of or relating to words.

Other meanings

  1. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.

  2. Consisting of words only.

Related words

  • non-verbal leak
  • verbal assault
  • verbal authority
  • verbal communication
  • verbal constipation
  • verbal diarrhea
  • verbal note
  • verbal overshadowing
  • verbal substantive
  • verbal humiliation
  • verbal participle
  • verbal complement

Word history

From Latin "verbālis" (belonging to a word).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “verbal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.