non-verbal

See also: nonverbal

English

Alternative forms

• nonverbal

Etymology

non- +‎ verbal

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnɒnˈvɜː.bl̩/
• (General American) enPR: nŏn-vûrʹ-bəl, IPA^(key): /ˌnɑnˈvɝ.bl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
• Hyphenation: non-ver‧bal

Adjective

non-verbal (not comparable)

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, Mushira Eid, editors, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 15:

     In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-š, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-ši before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16).

   • 2009, Anna Pazelskaya, “Three Kinds of Event Nominal Negation in Russian”, in Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia, Jérôme Lang, editors, Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium, Springer, →ISBN, 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): […]

3. (pathology) Unable to speak.

Antonyms

• verbal

Translations

other than written or spoken words

• Belarusian: невэрбальны (njeverbalʹny), невярбальны (njevjarbalʹny), няслоўны (njaslóŭny)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非言语的

• Czech: mimoslovní, neverbální
• Dutch: non-verbaal (nl)
• Finnish: sanaton (fi)
• French: non-verbal (fr)
• Galician: non verbal
• Hungarian: nonverbális (hu)
• Polish: niewerbalny (pl)
• Romanian: neverbal m or n
• Russian: неслове́сный (ru) (neslovésnyj), неверба́льный (ru) (neverbálʹnyj)
• Swedish: icke-verbal (sv)
• Ukrainian: безслі́вний (uk) (bezslívnyj), неверба́льний (neverbálʹnyj) (formal)
• Welsh: aneiriol (cy)

Noun

non-verbal (plural non-verbals)

1. A sound, gesture, etc. that is not a word.

French

Etymology

From non- +‎ verbal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃.vɛʁ.bal/

Adjective

non-verbal (feminine non-verbale, masculine plural non-verbaux, feminine plural non-verbales)

1. non-verbal (in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language)

   Antonym: verbal