Definitions for verbals

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verbals ver·bal

Spelling: [vur-buh l]

IPA: /ˈvɜr bəl/

Verbals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in verbals (abelrsv).

Definitions for verbals

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 verbals

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

Examples for verbals

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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