English-French translations for verbal

• verbal
• oral
  C'est pour cette raison que nous ne soutenons pas cet amendement oral. We therefore do not support this verbal amendment.
  Il ne nous reste que quelques promesses orales. We are left with just a few verbal commitments.

Definition of verbal

• Of or relating to words
• Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text
• Expressly spoken rather than written; oral
• Derived from, or having the nature of a verb
• Used to form a verb
• Word for word
• Abounding with words; verbose
• A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals
• A confession given to police
• To induce into fabricating a confession

Examples

• a verbal contract
• a verbal testimony
• a verbal translation

Related words

• verbalize
• verbally
• deverbal
• non-verbal
• cruciverbalist
• cruciverbalism
• nonverbal
• verbalization
• overbalance