rhetorical

rhetorical is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
2. adjective. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought

   "mere rhetorical frippery"

3. adjective. of or relating to rhetoric- W.A.White- Lewis Mumford

   "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"

   "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"

Common word forms

rhetoricals, rhetorically, rhetoricalness

Words from these letters

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