Similar Words

— bombastic
— declamatory
— empurpled
— fancy
— figurative
— flowery
— forensic
— grandiloquent
— large
— magniloquent
— nonliteral
— oratorical
— ornate
— orotund
— over-embellished
— poetic
— poetical
— purple
— redirect
— redress
— retract
— retraction
— retrograde
— retrogression
— retrospect
— retrospection
— rhetoric
— stylistic
— tall
— tumid
— turgid

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Rhetorical — synonyms, rhetorical antonyms, definition

1. rhetorical (a)

26 synonyms

articulate bombastic controversial debatable declamatory elegant eloquent embellished fancy florid fluent forensic formal grandiloquent lexical literal oral oratorical ornamented pompous • • •

2. rhetorical (Adjective)

1 antonym

unrhetorical

2 definitions

rhetorical (Adjective) — Of or relating to rhetoric. ex. "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested" ex. "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"

rhetorical (Adjective) — Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought. ex. "mere rhetorical frippery"