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Oral (adjective)
Relating to the mouth.
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Oral (adjective)
Spoken rather than written.
“an oral presentation; an oral French exam”
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Oral (noun)
A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
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Oral (noun)
A physical examination of the mouth.
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Oral (noun)
Oral sex.
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Verbal (adjective)
Of or relating to words.
“wordish”
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Verbal (adjective)
Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
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Verbal (adjective)
Consisting of words only.
“non-verbal|substantive”
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Verbal (adjective)
Expressly spoken rather than written.
“a verbal contract”
“a verbal testimony”
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Verbal (adjective)
Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
“rhematic”
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Verbal (adjective)
Used to form a verb.
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Verbal (adjective)
Capable of speech.
“preverbal”
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Verbal (adjective)
Word for word.
“literal|verbatim”
“a verbal translation”
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Verbal (adjective)
Abounding with words; verbose.
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Verbal (noun)
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.
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Verbal (verb)
To fabricating a confession.
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Oral (adjective)
spoken rather than written; verbal
“they had reached an oral agreement”
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Oral (adjective)
relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth
“oral literature”
“a society with an oral tradition”
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Oral (adjective)
(of a society) not having reached the stage of literacy.
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Oral (adjective)
relating to the mouth
“oral hygiene”
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Oral (adjective)
done or taken by the mouth
“oral contraceptives”
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Oral (adjective)
(of a speech sound) pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
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Oral (adjective)
(in Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which the mouth is the main source of pleasure and the centre of experience.
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Oral (noun)
a spoken examination or test
“a French oral”
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Verbal (adjective)
relating to or in the form of words
“verbal abuse”
“the root of the problem is visual rather than verbal”
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Verbal (adjective)
spoken rather than written; oral
“a verbal agreement”
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Verbal (adjective)
tending to talk a lot
“he’s very verbal”
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Verbal (adjective)
relating to or derived from a verb
“a verbal adjective”
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Verbal (noun)
a word or words functioning as a verb.
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Verbal (noun)
a verbal noun.
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Verbal (noun)
abuse; insults
“just a bit of air-wave verbals”
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Verbal (noun)
the lyrics of a song or the dialogue of a film
“it is the responsibility of the directors to do better with the verbals”
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Verbal (noun)
a verbal statement containing a damaging admission alleged to have been made to the police, and offered as evidence by the prosecution.
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Verbal (verb)
attribute a damaging statement to (a suspect), especially dishonestly.