verbaladjective
uk/ˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˈvɝː.bəl/verbal adjective (SPOKEN)
C2 spoken rather than written:
a verbal agreement/description/explanation
Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
More examples
- Do you have it down in writing, or was it just a verbal agreement?
- He had apparently experienced a lot of verbal abuse from his co-workers.
- He launched into a verbal attack on her handling of the finances.
- Sales assistants are often at the receiving end of verbal abuse from customers.
- Many strikebreakers were subjected to verbal and physical attacks.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Forms of languages & specialist dialects
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- colloquialism
- legalese
- lingo
- lingua franca
- metalanguage
- newspeak
- non-standard
- oral
- patois
- pidgin
- plain English
- rhyming slang
- slang
- slangy
- speak
- tongue
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verbal adjective (IN WORDS)
C1 relating to words:
It can sometimes be difficult to give a verbal description of things like colours and sounds.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Forms of languages & specialist dialects
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- colloquialism
- legalese
- lingo
- lingua franca
- metalanguage
- newspeak
- non-standard
- oral
- patois
- pidgin
- plain English
- rhyming slang
- slang
- slangy
- speak
- tongue
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verbally
adverb uk/ˈvɜː.bəl.i/us/ˈvɝː.bəl.i/
The judge then verbally agreed to the attorney's request.