a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; |
Adj. | 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 - not rhetorical |