HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | rhetorical | Of or relating to rhetoric |
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| 2 | rhetorical | Concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking |
| Sounds | rihtao'rihkahl |
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| Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2061 more rhymes in ahl... |
| Meaning | Of or relating to rhetoric. |
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| Examples | "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford |
| Nouns | rhetoric; rhetoric |
| Meaning | Concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking. |
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| Examples | "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply" |
| Contrary | unrhetorical |
| Similar | anapestic, anapaestic; bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid; flowery, ornate; embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, purple; forensic; grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall; oratorical; poetic, poetical; stylistic |
| See also | formal; figurative, nonliteral; fancy |
| Nouns | rhetoric |
| Adverbs | rhetorically |
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