Non-verbal

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŏn-vûrʹ-bÉ™l, IPA: /ËŒnÉ’n.ˈvÉœr.bÉ™l/
• UK IPA: ËŒnÉ’n.ˈvɜː.bəɫ
• US IPA: ËŒnÉ‘n.ˈvɜ˞.bəɫ
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)bÉ™l
• Hyphenation: non + ver + bal

Alternative forms

• nonverbal

Full definition of non-verbal

Adjective

1. (of communication) in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
2. (grammar, somewhat rare) of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs
• 1991, Bernard Comrie, “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”, in Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid (editors), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-55619-135-0, page 15:In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-Å¡, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-Å¡i before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16).
• 2009, Anna Pazelskaya, "Three Kinds of Event Nominal Negation in Russian", in Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia, and Jérôme Lang (editors), Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-00664-7, page 25:Negative prefix in Russian is a distinctive feature of nonverbal parts of speech, namesly, nouns (even those that do not denote situations, e.g. 3a), adjectives (3b), and adverbs (3c): ...

Antonyms

• verbal