rhetorical

  • (a) 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
  • (a) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
    • mere rhetorical frippery

Antonyms

unrhetorical

See also

fancy figurative nonliteral

Words of close approximity

rhetorical device rhetorically rhetorical question