Verbal
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
Abounding with words; verbose.
Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
A noun derived from a verb.
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Verbal Quotations
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke
I love being verbal in films.
Sylvester Stallone
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Lascelles Abercrombie
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Annie Leibovitz
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Erwin Schrodinger
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'
Conan O'Brien
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
Allen Tate
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita Dove
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
Shirley Manson
I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
Judy Collins
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
Kenneth L. Pike
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.
Moses Mendelssohn
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
Grandmaster Flash
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
Sean Lennon
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Roman Jakobson
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Moses Mendelssohn
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
Malcolm Boyd
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Sergei Eisenstein
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Verbal Translations
verbal in French is de vive voix
verbal in Italian is orale
verbal in Spanish is oral, verbal
verbal in Swedish is muntlig, ordagrann
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