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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"
    
5. Expressed in spoken words
   "a verbal contract"
    
6. [archaic] Prolix
   "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"

See also: communicative, communicatory, prolix, spoken, verb, verbally, word

Antonym: numerical

Encyclopedia: Verbal