Antiverbal
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
"Though in very different ways, Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion each define their subjects as somehow beyond words — antiverbal or nonverbal, threatening or sublime, overpowering and intense or private and intuitive […]"
Example
More examples"Though in very different ways, Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion each define their subjects as somehow beyond words — antiverbal or nonverbal, threatening or sublime, overpowering and intense or private and intuitive […]"
Etymology
From anti- + verbal.
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