Words and phrases that have a meaning related to rhetorical: (172 results)
Antonyms:
unrhetorical
Often used in the same context:
oratorical, demagogic, polemical, tu quoque, reductio ad absurdum, non sequitur, ad hominem, lawyerly, infelicitous, sophistical, clintonian, sermonic, glib, metaphorical, syllogistic, jesuitical, sententious, bloviation, ineloquent, hyperbolic, unstatesmanlike, hortatory, epistemological, platitudinous, obfuscating, ideological, polysyllabic, terminological, discursive, verbal, johnsonian, specious, mealymouthed, propagandistic, reflexive, vacuous, legalistic, fatuous, waffly, pugilistic, contentless, hifalutin, histrionic, aphoristic, sophistic, interrogative, hackneyed, incendiary, grandiloquent, churchillian, inarguable, recriminatory, philosophical, idee fixe, philosophic, baldfaced, definitional, beethovenian, shopworn, portentous, political, opera buffa, equivocating, nonsensical, connotative, sophomoric, declarative, mot juste, stylistic, abstruse, intellectual, postmodernist, antitrade, schoolmarmish, bellicose, declarative sentence, misunderestimate, lyrical, extemporaneous, theological, establishmentarian, nuanced, barbed, ex cathedra, alliterative, meretricious, rebarbative, semantic, blunt, disingenuous, abstract noun, declamatory, stump speech, perfunctory, blither, counterfactual, semiotic, trite, banal, rote, teacherly, literal, literary, pedantry, pre, simple, boring, ceremony, common, convincing, empirical, indiscretion, musical, particular, approximate, bit, bravura, commercial, ex, finesse, formality, hearty, dramaturgical, argumentative, pedagogic, performative, choreographic, exegetical, novelistic, hermeneutic, pedagogical, communicative, deconstructive, imagistic, narrational, architectonic, homiletical, presentational, comedic
Appears in the definition of:
ecphonesis, end-stopped, epiplexis, exclamation, gemination, litotes, meiosis, oratory, peroration, repetition, rhetorically, rhetorical question, run-on, unrhetorical
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Also try:anapaestic, anapestic, bombastic, embellished, empurpled, flowery, forensic, large, magniloquent, ornate, orotund, over-embellished, poetic, poetical, purple, tall, tumid, turgid
— Nouns for rhetorical: question, questions, devices, device, theory, strategies, strategy, style, criticism, figures, analysis, more...
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