If your friend tells you that the speech you just made was really verbal, he means you used too many words, overstated the point, went on too long, were redundant.
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written;
Adjective S.
communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
Adjective S.
prolix; "you put me to forget a lady''s manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
Adjective
relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
Adjective S.
expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
Adjective
of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running'' in `hot and cold running water''"
Adjective
of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability"
a.
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly
in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal
contract; verbal testimony.
a.
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.
a.
Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as,
a verbal translation.
a.
Abounding with words; verbose.
a.
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.
n.
A noun derived from a verb.
Verbal
Made she no verbal question?
We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.2.
And loses, though but verbal, his reward.
Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge.3.
Verbal
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written;
A noun derived from a verb.
Usage Examples
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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.
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.
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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.
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesI 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.
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.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
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.'
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