Usually means: Language used for persuasive effect.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word rhetorical:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhetorical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rhetorical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rhetorical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rhetorical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rhetorical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rhetorical, rhetorical: Wordnik
  7. rhetorical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rhetorical: Wiktionary
  9. rhetorical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rhetorical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rhetorical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rhetorical, rhetorical: Dictionary.com
  13. rhetorical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Rhetorical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Rhetorical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rhetorical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rhetorical: Rhymezone
  18. Rhetorical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rhetorical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. rhetorical: Free Dictionary
  21. rhetorical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rhetorical: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. rhetorical: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. rhetorical: Legal dictionary

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  1. rhetorical: Encyclopedia

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  1. rhetorical: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
▸ adjective:  Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
▸ noun:  (education, dated) A study or exercise in rhetoric.

Similar:
oratorical, poetic, stylistic, poetical, forensic, declamatory, anapaestic, anapestic, magniloquent, grandiloquent, more...

Opposite:
literal, straightforward, genuine, factual, direct

Types:
metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, irony, more...

Phrases:
rhetorical question, rhetorical questions, rhetorical devices, rhetorical device, rhetorical criticism, more...

Adjectives:
mere, socio, more, little, fine, final, only, literary, empty, occasional, typical



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Similar:
oratorical, poetic, stylistic, poetical, forensic, declamatory, anapaestic, anapestic, magniloquent, grandiloquent, more...

Opposite:
literal, straightforward, genuine, factual, direct

Types:
metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, irony, more...

Phrases:
rhetorical question, rhetorical questions, rhetorical devices, rhetorical device, rhetorical criticism, rhetorical figure, Rhetorical modes, Rhetorical structure theory, Glossary of rhetorical terms, more...

Adjectives:
mere, socio, more, little, fine, final, only, literary, empty, occasional, typical



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