rhetorical

adj.有说服力的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
rhetorical (adjective)
1.
a) of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric
b) employed for rhetorical effect , especially asked merely for effect with no answer expected - a rhetorical question
2.
a) given to rhetoric - grandiloquent
b) - verbal
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
rhetorical (adjective)
1.
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
SYNONYMS:
bombastic, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, orotund, windy
RELATED WORDS:
bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin ( hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid; overdone, verbose, wordy
NEAR ANTONYMS:
eloquent, well-spoken; bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious
unrhetorical
rhetorical (adjective)
2.
full of fine words and fancy expressions
SYNONYMS:
aureate, florid, grandiloquent, highfalutin ( hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical ( rhetoric)
RELATED WORDS:
affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stilted; excessive, flattering, fulsome; boastful, bombastic; elevated, eloquent, lofty; bookish, inkhorn, learned
NEAR ANTONYMS:
prosaic, unpoetic; bald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadorned; natural, unaffected, unpretentious
rhetorical (adjective)
3.
of or relating to words or language
SYNONYMS:
lexical, linguistic ( linguistical), rhetorical ( rhetoric), vocabular, wordy
RELATED WORDS:
communicative, conversational
nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal
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