"rhetorical" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Of or relating to rhetoric (synset 302950191)
"accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"
Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought (synset 302023749)
"mere rhetorical frippery"
also:
- figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
- fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented
similar to:
- bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid - ostentatiously lofty in style
- flowery, ornate - marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
- empurpled, over-embellished, purple - excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- forensic - of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument
- grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall - lofty in style
- oratorical - characteristic of an orator or oratory
- poetic, poetical - characteristic of or befitting poetry
- stylistic - of or relating to style (especially in the use of language)