verbal

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.

  • Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː.bəl/ 
  • English description: of or relating to words
  • Synonyms: spoken
  • ORIGIN: Verbal simply means, "having to do with words." If you hit someone that's a physically assault, but if you say nasty things to him, it's a verbal assault. Sometimes we use verbal to mean "spoken instead of written," usually to talk about agreements we've made. A child who is verbal is a child who can speak, and we call someone who's very articulate a verbal person.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  • It can sometimes be difficult to give a verbal description of things like colours and sounds.
  • According to his theory, visual and verbal information are stored separately in our memory; they can be stored as images, words, or both.

*New word description, story and part of "EXAMPLE SENTENCE" are cited in Vocabulary

Song of the Week: <Rhythm Of the Rain>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQstQST1GiM