 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verbal
adjective
1: communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a
verbal protest"
2: of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal
ability"
3: of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives
like 'running' in 'hot and cold running water'"
4: 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" [ant: {numerical}]
5: expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
6: prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so
verbal"- Shakespeare
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Verbal \Ver"bal\, noun (Gram.)
A noun derived from a verb.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Verbal \Ver"bal\, adjective [F., fr. L. verbalis. See {Verb}.]
1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but
commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not
written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Made she no verbal question? --Shak.
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.
--Mayhew.
2. 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.
And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton.
Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial
knowledge. --Whewell.
3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as,
a verbal translation.
4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. (Gram.) 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.
{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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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