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English adjective: rhetorical | |||
| 1. | rhetorical of or relating to rhetoric | ||
| Samples | Accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested. The rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation. | ||
| 2. | rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought | ||
| Samples | Mere rhetorical frippery. | ||
| Similar | bombastic, declamatory, empurpled, flowery, forensic, grandiloquent, large, magniloquent, oratorical, ornate, orotund, over-embellished, poetic, poetical, purple, stylistic, tall, tumid, turgid | ||
| See also | fancy, figurative, nonliteral | ||
| Antonyms | unrhetorical | ||
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