Adjective: rhetorical ri'tor-u-kul or ri'tór-i-kul [N. Amer], ri'tó-ri-kul [Brit]
- Of or relating to rhetoric
"accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"
- Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
"mere rhetorical frippery"
See also: bombastic, declamatory, empurpled, fancy, figurative, flowery, forensic, grandiloquent, large, magniloquent, nonliteral, oratorical, ornate, orotund, over-embellished, poetic, poetical, purple, stylistic, tall, tumid, turgid
Antonym: unrhetorical
Encyclopedia: Rhetorical