verbal

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to words.
• Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
• Consisting of words only.
• Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
• Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
• Used to form a verb.
• Capable of speech.
• Word for word.
• Abounding with words; verbose.

Noun

• 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.
• A spoken confession given to police.
• Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.

Verb

• To induce into fabricating a confession.

Related

Similar words

• lectic

Opposite words

• implied
• unsaid

Origin

• From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis. Equivalent to verb + -al.