Another word for rhetorical | Synonyms for rhetorical

Another word for rhetorical

rhetorical Synonyms

rhetorical

modif.

oratorical, bombastic, eloquent; see verbose.

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Another word for rhetorical

adjective

Of or relating to the art of public speaking:
declamatory, elocutionary, oratorical. See words
Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style:
aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, sonorous, swollen. See plain, style, words

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She ignored his rhetorical questions.
He was the author of numerous rhetorical and theological works.
His work was overloaded with rhetorical embellishment, which he was the first to introduce into Roman history.
I am not posing a naïve, rhetorical question.
It was a rhetorical question and, to those posing it, simply a wish—just another way to say, "Why can't we all just get along?"

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