Rhetorical

/ɹɪˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/

Synonyms for "rhetorical" (127 found)

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Closest matches (26)

affected articulate artificial aureate bedizened big-sounding bombastic chichi contrived convoluted declamatory elevated elocutionary eloquent embellished euphuistic exaggerated expressive extravagant flamboyant

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flaming

Noun(1 words)

arguing

Adjective(4 words)

argumentative aristotelian articulentdeliberative body

Strong matches (38)

flashy flaunting florid flowery fluentfor effectforensic fulsome fustian garish gassy gaudy glib gongoresque grand grandiloquent grandiose grandisonanthigh flownhigh flying

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high soundinghigh-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding highfalutin imposing inflated inkhorn johnsonian labyrinthine lexiphanic linguistic

Adjective(2 words)

gimmicky grandiose

Noun(3 words)

joustinglanguage relatedlinguistic attribute

Related words (63)

Adjective(17 words)

linguistic styleoratorical ornate persuasivepersuasive dialoguepersuasive promptpersuasive speakingpersuasive speaking stylepersuasive speakingspersuasive tonepoetic languagepresidential stylequestion for effectsciolistic sophisticverbal artwritten argumentation

lofty long-winded lurid magniloquent meretricious mouthy oratorical ornate orotund ostentatious overblown overdone overelaborate overinvolved overwrought pedantic poetic pompous pretentious prolix

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purple sensational sensationalistic sententious sesquipedalian showy sonorous stilted stylistic swelling swollen tall tortuous tumescent tumid turgid unanswerable vocal voluble windy wordy

Noun(5 words)

speech relatedstylistic categorystylistic guideteam chantwaxing

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

5 entries

communication traitlinguistic propertylinguistic stylequestionstylistic attribute

More specific

4 entries

flowery languagegrandiloquencerhetorical devicerhetorical question

Collocations

6 entries

rhetorical analysisrhetorical appealrhetorical devicerhetorical questionrhetorical speechrhetorical strategy

Inflections

2 entries

more rhetoricalmost rhetorical

Derivations

3 entries

nonrhetorical rhetoric rhetorically

Antonyms

1 entries

unrhetorical

similar

23 entries

bombastic declamatory empurpled fancy figurative flowery forensic formal grandiloquent large magniloquent nonliteral oratorical ornate orotund over-embellished

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

Source: tatoeba (1982)

When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.

Source: tatoeba (41472)

Who needs rhetorical questions?

Source: tatoeba (1647542)

Have you ever asked me a question that wasn't rhetorical?

Source: tatoeba (1989682)

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