Rhetorical
[rɪ'tɒrɪk(ə)l] or [rɪ'tɔrɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; 'mere rhetorical frippery' .
(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 .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Oratorical.[2]. Declamatory, highly wrought.
Typed by Laverne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Declamatory, persuasive, oratorical, lively, animated, spirited
ANT:logical, calm, cool, deliberate
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And politics, however pretentiously rhetorical about ideals, is irrelevant if the only method it knows is to ostracize the desires it cannot manage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a very ordinary adolescent production, rhetorical and imitative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its style was rhetorical by modern standards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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