| Main Entry: | unwritten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood |
Synonyms: |
accepted, conventional, customary, oral, spoken, tacit, traditional, unformulated, unrecorded, unsaid, verbal, vocal, word-of-mouth |
Antonyms: |
explained, explicated, stated, written |
| 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: | 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: | traditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, accustomed, acknowledged, ancestral, classic, classical, common, conventional, customary, doctrinal, fixed, folk, habitual, historic, immemorial, long-established, old, oral, popular, prescribed, regular, rooted, sanctioned, taken for granted, time-honored, transmitted, universal, unwritten, widely used, widespread |
Antonyms: |
fresh, new, unestablished, unfixed, untraditional, unusual |
| 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: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uttered |
Synonyms: |
announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, said, told, unwritten, verbal, voiced |