Meanings
alternative nonverbal
- not comparableIn a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
- not comparableraregrammarOf or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs.
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): […]
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 251 more example
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).
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 - not comparablemedicineUnable to speak.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Chinese Mandarin 非言语的
- 非言语的other than written or spoken words
Czech mimoslovní, neverbální
- mimoslovníother than written or spoken words
- neverbálníother than written or spoken words
Dutch non-verbaal
- non-verbaalother than written or spoken words
Finnish sanaton
- sanatonother than written or spoken words
French non-verbal
- non-verbalother than written or spoken words
German nonverbal
- nonverbalother than written or spoken words
Hungarian nonverbális
- nonverbálisother than written or spoken words
Polish niewerbalny
- niewerbalnyother than written or spoken words
Romanian neverbal
- neverbalother than written or spoken words
Russian неслове́сный, неверба́льный
- неслове́сный (neslovésnyj)other than written or spoken words
- неверба́льный (neverbálʹnyj)other than written or spoken words
Swedish icke-verbal
- icke-verbalother than written or spoken words
Ukrainian безслі́вний, неверба́льний
- безслі́вний (bezslívnyj)other than written or spoken words
- неверба́льний (neverbálʹnyj)other than written or spoken words
Welsh aneiriol
- aneiriolother than written or spoken words
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with non-verbal
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non-verbal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-verbal
“non-verbal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-verbal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “non-verbal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-verbal.
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