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antiverbal

adj

Etymology

From anti- + verbal.

  1. derived from verbālis — “belonging to a word”
  2. derived from verbal
  3. prefixed as antiverbal — “anti + verbal”

Definitions

  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 […]
    • Othello, Horatio, and Brutus strike me as notable exemplars of laconicism, but in Hotspur's case Shakespeare creates an antiverbal bias that is not so much philosophical as it is bound up in gender stereotype.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiverbal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA