antiverbal

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ verbal.

Adjective

antiverbal (comparative more antiverbal, superlative most antiverbal)

1. (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.

Related terms

• averbal

Translations

opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words

• Portuguese: antiverbal

Portuguese

Etymology

From anti- +‎ verbal.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veʁˈbaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɦˈbaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veʁˈbaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɦˈbaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɾˈbaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɾˈbaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veʁˈbaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veʁˈbaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɻˈbaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.veɻˈbaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈbal/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈβaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈbal/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈβaɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.bɨɾˈbal/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.βɨɾˈβaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈba.li/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.vɨɾˈβa.li]

Adjective

antiverbal m or f (plural antiverbais)

1. (literature, semiotics) antiverbal (opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words)