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Rhetorical

Rhetorical Meaning & Definition
Rhetorical Definition And Meaning

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

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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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