Definisjon av rhetorical

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Adjective

rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
unrhetorical not rhetorical
fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
nonliteral, figurative (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
bombastic, declamatory, orotund, turgid, tumid, large ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
ornate, flowery marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
empurpled, over-embellished, purple excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
forensic used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law; "forensic photograph"; "forensic ballistics"
magniloquent, grandiloquent, tall puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
oratorical characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
poetical, poetic characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
rhetorical - 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
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Adjektiv

rhetorical - Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.
rhetorical - Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: rhetorical
  • Komparativ: more rhetorical
  • Superlativ: most rhetorical

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