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English
Etymology
anti- + verbal
Adjective
antiverbal (comparative more antiverbal, superlative most antiverbal)
- (literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
- 1987, Wayne (Chris) Anderson, Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction (page 5)
- 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
1989, Ronald L. Dotterer, Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, page 206: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.
Translations
opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words
Portuguese
Etymology
From anti- + verbal.
Pronunciation
Adjective
antiverbal m or f (plural antiverbais)
- (literature, semiotics) antiverbal (opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words)