About The Word Rhetorical
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Rhetorical
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What's The Definition Of Rhetorical?
[adj] concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
[adj] of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford Synonyms | Synonyms for Rhetorical: anapaestic | anapestic | bombastic | declamatory | embellished | empurpled | flowery | forensic | grandiloquent | large | magniloquent | oratorical | ornate | orotund | over-embellished | poetic | poetical | purple | stylistic | tall | tumid | turgid Related Terms | Find terms related to Rhetorical: See Also | fancy | figurative | formal | nonliteral Rhetorical In Webster's Dictionary \Rhe*tor"ic*al\, a. [L. rhetoricus, Gr. ????. See
{Rhetoric}.]
Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting,
rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical
treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
They permit him to leave their poetical taste
ungratified, provided that he gratifies their
rhetorical sense. --M. Arnold.
-- {Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness}, n.
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