Antonyms for rhetorical

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-tawr-i-kuhl, -tor-

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈtɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈtɒr-

concise

Definition 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

Synonyms for rhetorical

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