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| 1. | [ adjective ] of or relating to rhetoric | |
| Examples: | "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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| Related terms: | rhetoric | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking | |
| Examples: | "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply" |
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| Related terms: | unrhetorical oratorical forensic stylistic anapestic poetic bombastic grandiloquent flowery embellished figurative fancy formal | |
| Similar spelling: |
rhetorically rhetoric rhetorician |
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