uttered in words; spoken
using speech
involving speech rather than writing spoken questions and answers rather than written ones
an oral examination
of, given or taken through, or affecting the mouth
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said ‘no’ — Woody Allen
in psychoanalysis, of or relating to the first stage of sexual development in which gratification is derived from eating, sucking, and later by biting: compare anal, genital
orality /awʹraliti, o-/ noun
orally adv
[Latin or-, os mouth]