VERBAL

adj. 1 spoken, oral, vocal, said, uttered, expressed, enunciated, articulated, colloquial, conversational, viva voce, word-of-mouth, unwritten We had a verbal agreement that you would behave yourself 2 word-for-word, verbatim, literal We have an accurate verbal transcript of the proceedings 3 word, lexical, vocabulary She did very well on the verbal parts of the examination but poorly on the mathematics