| Main Entry: | verbal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
Synonyms: |
exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, rhetorical, said, stated, told, unwritten, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Main Entry: | linguistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | semantic |
Synonyms: |
dialectal, etymological, grammatical, lexemic, lexical, lingual, morphological, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, syntactical |