Find the synonyms or antonyms of a word



Synonyms for rhetorical


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ri-tawr-i-kuhl, -tor-
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈtɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈtɒr-

Top 10 synonyms for rhetorical Other synonyms for the word rhetorical

Définition of rhetorical

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "eloquent," from Latin rhetoricus, from Greek rhetorikos "oratorical, rhetorical; skilled in speaking," from rhetor "orator" (see rhetoric). Meaning "pertaining to rhetoric" is from 1520s. Rhetorical question is from 1670s. Related: Rhetorically.
  • adj wordy; flowery in speech
Example sentences :
  • The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works.
  • Extract from : « Menexenus » by Plato
  • For I do not imagine that I have any rhetorical art of my own.
  • Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
  • All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • Hardy was desperately in earnest, but not so much so as to be careless of rhetorical effect.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • What Inflection is placed on the rhetorical questions in par.
  • Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
  • It is no long step from this to the rhetorical question and its formal answer "ay but——."
  • Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
  • The first of these is a peculiar use of the rhetorical interrogation.
  • Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
  • His sense of decoration was fluid and had no hint of the rhetorical in it.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
  • Mr. Mahaffy calls this “rhetorical consolation,” and the exiles may have been of his mind.
  • Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang
  • Is there anything more in it than a name—a rhetorical flourish?
  • Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Antonyms for rhetorical

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019