| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
Synonyms: |
articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, 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 |
Antonyms: |
printed, written |
| Main Entry: | sensory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting animate nerve organs |
Synonyms: |
acoustic, afferent, audible, audiovisual, auditory, aural, auricular, clear, discernible, distinct, gustative, gustatory, hearable, lingual, neural, neurological, ocular, olfactive, olfactory, ophthalmic, optic, perceptible, phonic, plain, receptive, sensational, sensatory, sensible, sensual, sonic, tactile, visual |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
Synonyms: |
announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
Antonyms: |
heard, written |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | linguistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | semantic |
Synonyms: |
dialectal, etymological, grammatical, lexemic, lexical, lingual, morphological, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, syntactical |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uttered |
Synonyms: |
announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, said, told, unwritten, verbal, voiced |