rhetorical

Speech parts

1. rhetorical - Noun

2. rhetorical - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rococo baroque dialectical oratorical flowery histrionic literary elaborate linguistic purple rhetoric verbal exaggerated stylistic forensic
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Antonyms

spartan simple basic anal stark poor
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Phrases with the word

rhetorical problem rhetorical subject rhetorical issue rhetorical expression rhetorical statement rhetorical tricks

Examples

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. Derek Walcott

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth. Ernest Mandel

The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos. Irvine Welsh

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? Mario Vargas Llosa

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. George Henry Lewes

Close letter words and terms

rhetology rhetor rhetoric rhetorical device rhetorical expression rhetorical induction