RHETORICAL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking
   Usage Example(s)
   • a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply
   Antonym(s)
   • unrhetorical (what does unrhetorical mean?)
   Similar To
   • anapestic (what does anapestic mean?)
   • anapaestic (what does anapaestic mean?)
   • bombastic (what does bombastic mean?)
   • declamatory (what does declamatory mean?)
   • large (what does large mean?)
   • orotund (what does orotund mean?)
   • tumid (what does tumid mean?)
   • turgid (what does turgid mean?)
   • flowery (what does flowery mean?)
   • ornate (what does ornate mean?)
   • forensic (what does forensic mean?)
   • grandiloquent (what does grandiloquent mean?)
   • magniloquent (what does magniloquent mean?)
   • tall (what does tall mean?)
   • oratorical (what does oratorical mean?)
   • stylistic (what does stylistic mean?)
   • embellished (what does embellished mean?)
   • empurpled (what does empurpled mean?)
   • over-embellished (what does over-embellished mean?)
   • purple (what does purple mean?)
   • poetic (what does poetic mean?)
   • poetical (what does poetical mean?)
   See Also
   • fancy (what does fancy mean?)
   • figurative (what does figurative mean?)
   • nonliteral (what does nonliteral mean?)
   • formal (what does formal mean?)
2. Meaning
   • of or relating to rhetoric
   Usage Example(s)
   • accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested- W.A.White
   • the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation- Lewis Mumford
   Pertainym(s)
   • rhetoric (what does rhetoric mean?)