preverbal

adjective

pre·ver·bal | \ (ˌ)prē-ˈvər-bəl

Definition of preverbal

1 : occurring before the verb

2 : having not yet acquired the faculty of speech a preverbal child

Examples of preverbal in a Sentence

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Words alone are unlikely to have much impact on these deeper, preverbal regions. — Matthew Green, Newsweek, "A Radical New Therapy Could Treat the 'Untreatable' Victims of Trauma," 23 Mar. 2017 The unit of currency for our right brain, conversely, would be the image, because the right brain is preverbal. — Adam Rogers, WIRED, "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic," 23 Feb. 2009

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