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1. Of or relating to or formed from words in general
   "verbal ability"
    
2. Of or relating to or formed from a verb
   "verbal adjectives like 'running' in 'hot and cold running water'"
    
3. 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"
    
4. Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
   "He gave a good verbal description of the suspect";
   - prolix
    
5. Communicated in the form of words
   "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
    
6. Expressed in spoken words
   "a verbal contract"

1. A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb

1. Misreport something that someone else has said or written, esp. to deliberately misinterpret or implicate without real evidence
   "He was verballing the Minister"; "I think you're verballing the witness"

Derived forms: verballing, verballed, verbals

See also: communicative, communicatory, diffuse, long-winded, long-windedness, pleonastic, prolixity, prolixness, redundant, spoken, tautologic, tautological, tedious, verbose, voluble, windiness, windy [informal], wordiness, wordy

Antonym: numerical

Encyclopedia: Verbal