non-verbal

• nonverbal

non- +‎ verbal

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnɒnˈvɜː.bl̩/
• (General American) enPR: nŏn-vûrʹ-bəl, IPA^(key): /ˌnɑnˈvɝ.bl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
• Hyphenation: non-ver‧bal

non-verbal (not comparable)

1. (of communication) In a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
2. (grammar, somewhat rare) Of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs
   • 1991, Bernard Comrie, “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”, in Bernard Comrie, Mushira Eid, editors, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 15:

     In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-š, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-ši before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16).

   • 2009, Anna Pazelskaya, “Three Kinds of Event Nominal Negation in Russian”, in Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia, Jérôme Lang, editors, Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:

     Negative prefix in Russian is a distinctive feature of nonverbal parts of speech, namesly, nouns (even those that do not denote situations, e.g. 3a), adjectives (3b), and adverbs (3c): […]

3. (pathology) Unable to speak.

• verbal

non-verbal (plural non-verbals)

1. A sound, gesture, etc. that is not a word.

From non- +‎ verbal.

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃.vɛʁ.bal/

non-verbal (feminine non-verbale, masculine plural non-verbaux, feminine plural non-verbales)

1. non-verbal (in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language)

   Antonym: verbal