verbalとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.bəl/, [ˈvɜː.bɫ̩], enPR: vûrʹ-bəl
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR: vûrʹ-bəl
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
  • ハイフネーション: ver‧bal

形容詞

verbal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to words.

   Synonym: wordish

2. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
3. Consisting of words only.

   Antonyms: non-verbal, substantive

   • 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present

     We subjoin an engraving […] which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:

     It was not a verbal remark, but a proceeding in dumb-show

4. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.

   a verbal contract

   a verbal testimony

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:

     You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales, you know.

   • 1944, George Orwell, “What is Fascism?”, in Tribune:

     I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term 'Fascist'. I am speaking of what I have seen in print.

5. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.

   Synonym: rhematic

6. (grammar) Used to form a verb.
7. Capable of speech.

   Antonym: preverbal

   • 2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55)

     How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?

8. Word for word.

   Synonyms: literal, verbatim

   a verbal translation

9. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     You put me to forget a lady’s manners
     By being so verbal; and learn now, for all,
     That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce
     By th’ very truth of it, I care not for you

同意語

• (of または relating to speech または words): lectic

反意語

• (expressly spoken または written): implied
• (expressly stated): unsaid

派生語

関連する語

名詞

verbal (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 verbals)

1. (countable, grammar) 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.

   Synonym: non-finite verb

2. (countable, Britain, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
   • 1982, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 2496:

     They were convicted on the evidence of an agent provocateur named Richard Seary, backed up by police verbals from three police officers who gave evidence of six verbals in which the three accused were supposed to have admitted their guilt.

3. (uncountable, Britain, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
   • 2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor

     We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up.

動詞

verbal (三人称単数 現在形 verbals, 現在分詞 verballing, 過去形および過去分詞形 verballed)

1. (transitive, Britain, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
   • 1982, John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study, →ISBN, BRILL, page 128:

     "The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained."

   • 2001, Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, →ISBN, Allen & Unwin, page 116:

     "Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing."

   • 2004, Jeremy Gans & Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence, →ISBN, Routledge Cavendish, page 504:

     "Moreover, given the risk of verballing, it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable."

アナグラム

• Varble, Vrabel