non-verbal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˌnɑnˈvɝ.bl̩/ (General-American)
- nŏn-vûrʹ-bəl (General-American)
- /ˌnɒnˈvɜː.bl̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From non- + verbal.
Meanings
- (not-comparable, of communication) In a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
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(not-comparable, rare) Of 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 25: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-comparable) Unable to speak.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nonverbal | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Translations (20)
cs mimoslovní (other than written or spoken words) · be невэрбальны (other than written or spoken words) · de nonverbal (other than written or spoken words) · fr non-verbal (other than written or spoken words) · ro neverbal (other than written or spoken words) · be невярбальны (other than written or spoken words) · cs neverbální (other than written or spoken words) · uk неверба́льний (other than written or spoken words) · uk безслі́вний (other than written or spoken words) · fi sanaton (other than written or spoken words) · nl non-verbaal (other than written or spoken words) · pl niewerbalny (other than written or spoken words) · be няслоўны (other than written or spoken words) · sv icke-verbal (other than written or spoken words) · gl non verbal (other than written or spoken words) · ru неверба́льный (other than written or spoken words) · hu nonverbális (other than written or spoken words) · cy aneiriol (other than written or spoken words) · ru неслове́сный (other than written or spoken words) · cmn 非言语的 (other than written or spoken words)