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say it: VUR-buhl
verbal is an adjective meaning "communicated in the form of words". It is pronounced /ˈvɝbəl/ — VUR-buhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
of or relating to or formed from words in general
“verbal ability”
of or relating to or formed from a verb
“verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for verbal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.