| Main Entry: | word of mouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oral communication |
Synonyms: |
oral message, orally, parol, personal account, speech, spoken communication, spoken word, verbal evidence, viva voce |
| Main Entry: | hearsay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsubstantiated information |
Synonyms: |
clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, leak*, mere talk, noise*, report, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, talk of the town, word of mouth |
Antonyms: |
evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | second-hand information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect information |
Synonyms: |
buzz, gossip, grapevine report, hearsay, rumor, scuttlebutt, secondhand information, talk, unconfirmed report, word of mouth |