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rhetorical

 
Adjective rhetorical has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. rhetorical - concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
    Antonyms:
    unrhetorical, literal, plain, unembellished, matter-of-fact, prosaic, plainspoken
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