Definitions for verbal

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verbal ver·bal

Spelling: [vur-buh l]

IPA: /ˈvɜr bəl/

Verbal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in verbal (abelrv).

Definitions for verbal

noun

1. Grammar. a word, particularly a noun or adjective, derived from a verb.

adjective

1. of or relating to words:
2. consisting of or in the form of words:
3. expressed in spoken words; oral rather than written:
4. consisting of or expressed in words (as opposed to actions):
5. pertaining to or concerned with words only (as opposed to ideas, facts, or realities):
6. corresponding word for word; verbatim:
7. using words:
8. based on the use of words (as opposed to other activity):
9. Grammar. of, relating to, or derived from a verb. used in a sentence as or like a verb, as participles and infinitives.

Origin of verbal

1485-95; Latin verbālis, equivalent to verb(um) word (see verb) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for verbal

In movies, that language, visual and verbal, has yet to be mastered.

None, sir—I came off at a moment's warning—my message is verbal.

It was wrong to trust any one with a verbal message in the cabinet of a fox.

Because of the verbal abuse and death threats coming my way, these women seemed to identify with me.

He reiterated the statements “I am not a politician” and “I am not a political advisor” so often that it seemed like a verbal tic.

Callers can leave a verbal message in the phonograph instead of a note.

There are no verbal crescendos; there is very little emotion and no drama at all.

The Crucifixion.marvellous picture by an effort at a verbal account of it.

The verbal irony in the story would have played well in the first century.

But no riot or verbal explosion followed the opening of the door.