English Dictionary
◊ VERBAL
verbal
adj 1: communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a
verbal protest"
2: of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal
ability"
3: of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives
like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
4: 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" [ant: {numerical}]
5: expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
6: (archaic) "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so
verbal"- Shakespeare
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN VERBAGE?
verbage
/ver'b▫j/ A deliberate misspelling and
mispronunciation of {verbiage} that assimilates it to the word
"garbage". Compare {content-free}. More pejorative than
"verbiage".
(1996-12-13)