verbal meaning and definition

VERBAL adjective

Definition of 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"
   • antonym: mathematical
5. expressed in spoken words
   • "a verbal contract"
6. prolix
   • "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare