Meanings
- not comparableBy mouth.
Pleasure your partner orally and manually.
2 more examples
This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.
1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times - not comparableSpoken as opposed to written.
I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbby spoken rather than written means
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishoral
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishorally
Translations
Arabic فَمَوِيًّا, شِفَاهِيًا
- فَمَوِيًّا (famawiyyan)by mouth
- شِفَاهِيًا (šifāhiyan)spoken
- شِفَاهًا (šifāhan)spoken
Bulgarian през устата, устно
- през устата (prez ustata)by mouth
- устно (ustno)spoken
Catalan oralment
- oralmentspoken
Esperanto buŝe
- buŝeby mouth
Finnish suun kautta, suullisesti
- suun kauttaby mouth
- suullisestispoken
French oralement, oralement
- oralementby mouth
- oralementspoken
German oral, mündlich
- oralby mouth
- mündlichspoken
Icelandic munnlega, munnlega
- munnlegaby mouth
- munnlegaspoken
Polish ustnie, oralnie
- ustnieby mouth
- oralnieby mouth
- słowniespoken
- ustniespoken
- werbalniespoken
- oralniespoken
Portuguese oralmente, bucalmente
- oralmenteby mouth
- bucalmenteby mouth
- oralmentespoken
- verbalmentespoken
Russian ора́льно, у́стно
- ора́льно (orálʹno)by mouth
- у́стно (ústno)spoken
Spanish oralmente, oralmente
- oralmenteby mouth
- oralmentespoken
- de viva vozspoken
Swedish oralt, verbalt
- oraltby mouth
- verbaltspoken
- muntligtspoken
Turkish şifahen
- şifahenspoken
Ukrainian у́сно
- у́сно (úsno)spoken
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
orally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orally
“orally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orally.
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