adjective
- Communicated in the form of words.
- usage: "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
- Of or relating to or formed from words in general.
- usage: "verbal ability"
- Of or relating to or formed from a verb.
- usage: "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
- Relating to or having facility in the use of words.
- usage: "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
- Expressed in spoken words.
- usage: "a verbal contract"
- Prolix. "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal- Shakespeare
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