1. Of or relating to or formed from words in general
   "verbal ability"
    
2. Expressed in spoken words
   "a verbal contract"
    
3. Communicated in the form of words
   "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
    
4. Of or relating to or formed from a verb
   "verbal adjectives like ‘running’ in ‘hot and cold running water’"
    
5. Relating to or having facility in the use of words
   "verbal aptitude"; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"
    
6. Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
   "He gave a good verbal description of the suspect";
   - prolix

1. A verb form that functions as another part of speech, or a word derived from a verb
   "In the phrase 'running water', 'running' is a verbal"

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

Derived forms: verbals, verballed, verballing

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: mathematical

Encyclopedia: Verbal