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rhetorical
/rɪ'tɑrikəl/
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  1. adjective
    given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
    "mere rhetorical frippery"

    Similar: 

    flowery forensic grandiloquent large magniloquent oratorical ornate orotund over-embellished poetic poetical purple stylistic tall tumid bombastic turgid declamatory empurpled
    Opposite:
    unrhetorical
  2. of or relating to rhetoric
    "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested" "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"
Examples of rhetorical
  • "mere rhetorical frippery"
  • "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"
  • "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"
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