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rhetorical

adjective
- 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
- concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
Antonyms: unrhetorical Similar: anapestic, anapaestic, bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid, flowery, ornate, forensic, grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall, oratorical, stylistic, embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, purple, poetic, poetical
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