verbal

1 of or relating to words or language the child didn't yet have the verbal skills needed to tell the doctor about the pain he was experiencing Synonyms lexical, linguistic (also linguistical), rhetorical (also rhetoric), vocabular, wordy Related Words communicative, conversational Antonyms nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal

2 made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing a verbal agreement carries less force than a written contract Synonyms nuncupative, oral, spoken, unwritten, viva voce, word-of-mouth Related Words consensual, implicit, informal; articulated, verbalized; given, pronounced, said, sounded, stated, told, voiced Near Antonyms explicit, formal Antonyms paper, written