verbal
- Adjective. Of, or relating to words.
- Adjective. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Adjective. Consisting of words only.
- Adjective. Expressly spoken or written, as opposed to implied.
- Adjective. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Adjective. (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Adjective. Capable of speech.
- Noun. (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
- Verb. (transitive, British) To fabricate a confession.
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