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 | ||