different between verbal vs factual

English

Etymology

From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verb?lis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??.b?l/, [?v??.b??], enPR: vûr?-b?l
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?.b?l/, [?v??.b??], enPR: vûr?-b?l
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?l
• Hyphenation: ver?bal

Adjective

verbal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to words.

   Synonym: wordish

2. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
3. Consisting of words only.

   Antonyms: non-verbal, substantive

   • 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present
4. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
5. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.

   Synonym: rhematic

6. (grammar) Used to form a verb.
7. Capable of speech.

   Antonym: preverbal

   • 2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55)

8. Word for word.

   Synonyms: literal, verbatim

9. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to speech or words): lectic

Antonyms

• (expressly spoken or written): implied
• (expressly stated): unsaid

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

verbal (plural verbals)

1. (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.

   Synonym: non-finite verb

2. (Britain, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.

Translations

Verb

verbal (third-person singular simple present verbals, present participle verballing, simple past and past participle verballed)

1. (transitive, Britain, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
   • 1982, John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study, ?ISBN, BRILL, page 128:

     "The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained."

   • 2001, Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, ?ISBN, Allen & Unwin, page 116:

     "Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing."

   • 2004, Jeremy Gans & Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence, ?ISBN, Routledge Cavendish, page 504:

     "Moreover, given the risk of verballing, it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable."

Anagrams

• Varble, Vrabel

Aragonese

Adjective

verbal m or f (plural verbals)

1. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

Related terms

• verbo

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin verb?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v???bal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?r?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve??bal/

Adjective

verbal (masculine and feminine plural verbals)

1. verbal (of or relating to words)
2. verbal (spoken rather than written)
3. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

Derived terms

Related terms

• verb

Further reading

• “verbal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin verb?lis. Synchronically analysable as verbe +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.bal/
• Homophones: verbale, verbales

Adjective

verbal (feminine singular verbale, masculine plural verbaux, feminine plural verbales)

1. verbal

Derived terms

• cadrage verbal
• locution verbale
• temps verbal

Further reading

• “verbal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???ba?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

verbal (not comparable)

1. verbal

   Synonym: mündlich

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch verbaal, from Middle French verbal, from Latin verb?lis. Doublet of perbal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [v?r?bal]
• Hyphenation: vêr?bal

Adjective

verbal or vêrbal

1. verbal,
   1. expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
   2. (linguistics) pertaining to verbs

Further reading

• “verbal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin verb?lis.

Adjective

verbal m or f (plural verbais, comparable)

1. verbal, oral

Romanian

Etymology

From French verbal, from Latin verbalis.

Adjective

verbal m or n (feminine singular verbal?, masculine plural verbali, feminine and neuter plural verbale)

1. verbal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin verb?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be??bal/, [be????al]

Adjective

verbal (plural verbales)

1. verbal (of or relating to words)
2. verbal (spoken rather than written)
3. (grammar) verbal (relating to verbs)

Derived terms

Noun

verbal m or f (plural verbales)|verbales

1. (grammar) verbal

Related terms

• verbo

Further reading

• “verbal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *viðribarðr (from berja.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??????b???/, /²??????b???/

Adjective

verbal

1. weather-beaten

English

Etymology

fact +? -al, modified by analogy with actual.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæk(t)?u?l/, /?fæk(t)??l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fak(t)???l/, /?fak(t)??l/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?f?k(t)???l/, /?f?k(t)??l/

Adjective

factual (comparative more factual, superlative most factual)

1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
   • 2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 34:

     If, as Marx claimed, these factual views were held by the ideologists of the nineteenth century and if these factual claims could be proven false, then Marx could claim to have refuted certain tenets of capitalist political philosophy on a purely  […]

   • 2014, Derek Matravers, Fiction and Narrative, OUP Oxford (?ISBN):

     Thus, the approach has more flexibility than Lamarque and Olsen's approach; in particular, it is open to the possibility that false factual claims do affect our understanding of, and our evaluation of, fictional narratives.

2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
   • 2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, Bethany House Pub (?ISBN)

     He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."

Derived terms

Related terms

• fact
• counterfactual
• de facto

Translations

Further reading

• factual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• factual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• caul fat

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fatual

Adjective

factual m or f (plural factuais, comparable)

1. factual (consisting of facts)

Spanish

Adjective

factual (plural factuales)

1. factual

   Synonym: fáctico