VERBAL
\vˈɜːbə͡l], \vˈɜːbəl], \v_ˈɜː_b_əl]\
Definitions of VERBAL
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(archaic) "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
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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"
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expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
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of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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"
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expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
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of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
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prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
By Princeton University
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Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
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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.
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Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
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Abounding with words; verbose.
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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.
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A noun derived from a verb.
By Oddity Software
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Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
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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.
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Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
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Abounding with words; verbose.
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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.
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A noun derived from a verb.
By Noah Webster.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Of or pertaining to words; consisting merely of words; as, his sympathy was only verbal; concerned with words more than with the ideas which they contain; stated or expressed in words, especially spoken words; hence, spoken; not written; word for word; in grammar, pertaining to, or derived from, a verb; verbal noun, a noun made from a verb by adding-ing, and meaning the act or process of doing what is indicated by the verb; as, in the sentence "Seeing is believing," seeing and believing are verbal nouns.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Relating to or consisting in words: spoken (as opposed to written): exact in words: attending to words only: word for word: derived directly from a verb.
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A part of speech, a noun derived from a verb.
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VERRALIST.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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