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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to rhetoric;
- Example: "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White
- Example: "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

2. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought;
- Example: "mere rhetorical frippery"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rhetorical \Rhe*tor"ic*al\, a. [L. rhetoricus, Gr. ????. See
   Rhetoric.]
   Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting,
   rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical
   treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
   [1913 Webster]

         They permit him to leave their poetical taste
         ungratified, provided that he gratifies their
         rhetorical sense.                        --M. Arnold.
   [1913 Webster] -- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly, adv. --
   Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rhetorical
    adj 1: 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: given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of
       thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" [ant: unrhetorical]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "rhetorical":
   Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, articulate, artificial, aureate,
   bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, contrived, convoluted,
   declamatory, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, embellished,
   euphuistic, exaggerated, expressive, extravagant, flamboyant,
   flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, fluent, for effect,
   forensic, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, glib, grand,
   grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
   high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, imposing, inflated,
   inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, linguistic, lofty, long-winded,
   lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, mouthy, oratorical, ornate,
   orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate,
   overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, poetic, pompous, pretentious,
   prolix, purple, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
   sesquipedalian, showy, sonorous, stilted, stylistic, swelling,
   swollen, tall, tortuous, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unanswerable,
   vocal, voluble, windy, wordy