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has gloss(adjective) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
rhetorical
lexicalizationeng: rhetorical
Meaning
Catalan
lexicalizationcat: retòric
Czech
lexicalizationces: rétorický
German
lexicalizationdeu: phrasenhaft
lexicalizationdeu: rhetorisch
Modern Greek (1453-)
lexicalizationell: ρητορικός
Esperanto
lexicalizationepo: retorika
Basque
lexicalizationeus: erretoriko
Finnish
lexicalizationfin: retorinen
French
lexicalizationfra: rhétorique
lexicalizationfra: de rhétorique
Galician
lexicalizationglg: retórico
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
lexicalizationgrc: ῥητορικός
Hindi
lexicalizationhin: BARaNagawa
Italian
lexicalizationita: retorico
Korean
lexicalizationkor: 수사학상의
lexicalizationkor: 수사학의
lexicalizationkor: 웅변적인
Latin
lexicalizationlat: rhetoricus
Latvian
lexicalizationlav: retorisks
Dutch
lexicalizationnld: retorisch
Polish
lexicalizationpol: retoryczny
Portuguese
lexicalizationpor: retórico
Castilian
lexicalizationspa: retórica
lexicalizationspa: retórico
Swahili (macrolanguage)
lexicalizationswa: balagha
Swedish
lexicalizationswe: retorisk
Thai
lexicalizationtha: เกี่ยวกับ rhetoric
Turkish
lexicalizationtur: sözbilime ait
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Ukrainian
lexicalizationukr: риторичний
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opposite(adjective) not rhetorical
unrhetorical
similar(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
bombastic, declamatory, tumid, orotund, turgid, large
similar(adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
flowery, ornate
similar(adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
over-embellished, purple, empurpled
similar(adjective) of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument
forensic
similar(adjective) lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
tall, magniloquent, grandiloquent
similar(adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
oratorical
similar(adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"
poetical, poetic
similar(adjective) of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"
stylistic

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