| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pronounced |
| Synonyms: | aforementioned, aforesaid, forenamed, spoken |
| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Antonyms: | printed, written |
| Main Entry: | reputed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believed |
| Synonyms: | accounted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, deemed, estimated, gossiped, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reckoned, regarded, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, thought |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | such |
| Part of Speech: | adverb, pronoun |
| Definition: | aforementioned, specific |
| Synonyms: | aforesaid, akin, alike, analogous, comparable, corresponding, equivalent, like, parallel, said, similar, such a one, such a person, such a thing, suchlike, that, the like, this |
| Main Entry: | verbal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, rhetorical, said, stated, told, unwritten, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Main Entry: | vocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, articulated, choral, expressed, intonated, lyric, modulated, operatic, oral, phonetic, phonic, pronounced, put into words, said, singing, sonant, sung, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocalic, vocalized, voiced, vowel |
| Antonyms: | written |
| Main Entry: | reported |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stated |
| Synonyms: | announced, believed, broadcast, communicated, described, disclosed, divulged, expressed, made known, narrated, noted, proclaimed, recited, recorded, recounted, reputed, revealed, rumored, said |
| Antonyms: | certain, secret, unknown, verified |
| Main Entry: | rumored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reported |
| Synonyms: | all over town, broadcast, bruited, circulating, given out, going around, gossiped, prevailing, reputed, reputed, rife, said, told |