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verbal

/ˈvɝ.bəl/

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What does verbal mean?

adjective

  1. Of or relating to words.
  2. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
  3. Consisting of words only.
More meanings (10)

adjective

  1. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
  2. Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
  3. Used to form a verb.
  4. Capable of speech.
  5. Word for word.
  6. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.

noun

  1. A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
  2. A spoken confession given to police.
  3. Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.

verb

  1. To allege (usually falsely) that someone has made an oral admission.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈvɝ.bəl/

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By our other tests we also found him defective in verbal memory processes, even when he read the passage to be remembered.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine theorizing, unnecessary and impossible.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
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It will be our duty, under verbal instructions from the Surgeon General, to continue the investigation of the causation of yellow fever.
VariousThe Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915Project Gutenberg ebook #987
This really claims the advisability of verbal prohibition, which is absolutely useless, unless supported by the second class of safeguard, periodic "inspection."
Victor LefebureThe Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarProject Gutenberg ebook #1272
The reason is to be sought in the verbal associations established in our minds by the peculiar composition of the English language.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486