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verbal

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ver=bal
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CIDE DICTIONARY

verbala. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See Verb.].
  •  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?"  [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."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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."  [1913 Webster]
    "Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Abounding with words; verbose.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.
verbaln. 
     A noun derived from a verb.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

verbal, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 of or concerned with words (made a verbal distinction).
2 oral, not written (gave a verbal statement).
3 Gram. of or in the nature of a verb (verbal inflections).
4 literal (a verbal translation).
5 talkative, articulate.
--n.
1 Gram. a a verbal noun. b a word or words functioning as a verb.
2 sl. a verbal statement, esp. one made to the police.
3 sl. an insult; abuse (gave them the verbal).
--v.tr. (verballed, verballing) Brit. sl. attribute a damaging statement to (a suspect).

Idiom
verbal noun Gram. a noun formed as an inflection of a verb and partly sharing its constructions (e.g. smoking in smoking is forbidden: see -ING(1)).
Derivative
verbally adv.
Etymology
ME f. F verbal or LL verbalis (as VERB)

THESAURUS

verbal

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

ROGET THESAURUS

verbal

Word

N word, term, vocable, name, phrase, root, etymon, derivative, part of speech, ideophone, dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary, index, concordance, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, etymology, derivation, glossology, terminology orismology, paleology, lexicography, glossographer, lexicologist, verbarian, verbal, literal, titular, nominal, conjugate, paronymous, derivative, verbally, verbatim, the artillery of words.


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