Definitions for rhetorical

rhetorical rhe·tor·i·cal

Spelling: [ri-tawr-i-kuh l, -tor-]
IPA: /rɪˈtɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈtɒr-/

Rhetorical is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 868 anagrams from letters in rhetorical (acehilorrt).

Definitions for rhetorical

adjective

  1. used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  2. marked by or tending to use exaggerated language or bombast.
  3. of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric, or the effective use of language.

Origin of rhetorical

1470-80; Latin rhētoric(us) (Greek rhētorikós) + -al1

Examples for rhetorical

But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.

Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.

It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.

Yet the president uses it for rhetorical vividness—a clarity, as it were.

The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works.

What Inflection is placed on the rhetorical questions in par.

Hardy was desperately in earnest, but not so much so as to be careless of rhetorical effect.

But this new flavor of rhetorical flimflam is still pretty, well, whack.

All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them.

For I do not imagine that I have any rhetorical art of my own.

Word Value for rhetorical
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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