vocabular
vo·cab·u·lar
adjective \vō-ˈka-byə-lər, və-\Definition of VOCABULAR
: of or relating to words or phraseology : verbal
Examples of VOCABULAR
- <the school banned the book for vocabular reasons, as some parents objected to the author's use of profanity>
Origin of VOCABULAR
back-formation from vocabulary
First Known Use: 1608
Related to VOCABULAR
- Synonyms
- lexical, linguistic (also linguistical), rhetorical (also rhetoric), verbal, wordy
- Antonyms
- nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal
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