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1. Of or relating to rhetoric
   "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"
    
2. Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
   "mere rhetorical frippery"

See also: bombastic, declamatory, empurpled, fancy, figurative, flowery, forensic, grandiloquent, large, magniloquent, nonliteral, oratorical, ornate, orotund, over-embellished, poetic, poetical, purple, stylistic, tall, tumid, turgid

Antonym: unrhetorical

Encyclopedia: Rhetorical