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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
rhetoric
n 1: using language effectively to please or persuade
2: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the
grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness,
grandiloquence, rhetoric]
3: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn:
palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk,
rhetoric]
4: study of the technique and rules for using language
effectively (especially in public speaking)
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rhetoric \Rhet"o*ric\, n. [F. rh['e]torique, L. rhetorica, Gr.
???? (sc. ???), fr. ??? rhetorical, oratorical, fr. ???
orator, rhetorician; perhaps akin to E. word; cf. ??? to
say.]
1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in
prose.
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2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and
force. --Locke.
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3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation
without conviction or earnest feeling.
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4. Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which
allures or charms.
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Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. --Daniel.
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Thesaurus Results for rhetoric:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction, effective style, elocution, eloquence, eloquent tongue, exaggeration, expression, expression of ideas, expressiveness, facundity, fashion, feeling for words, felicitousness, felicity, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, forensics, form of speech, formulation, fulsomeness, fustian, garishness, gasconade, gaudiness, gift of expression, gift of gab, glibness, grace of expression, grammar, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, graphicness, high-flown diction, highfalutin, homiletics, hot air, idiom, inflatedness, inflation, language, lecturing, lexiphanicism, literary style, locution, loftiness, long-windedness, luridness, magniloquence, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, meaningfulness, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, mode, mode of expression, oratory, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, parlance, peculiarity, personal style, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, platform oratory, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prolixity, prose run mad, public speaking, puffery, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rant, rhapsody, rhetoricalness, rodomontade, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, sesquipedality, showiness, silver tongue, slickness, smoothness, speaking, speech, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stiltedness, strain, stump speaking, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, talk, tall talk, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, tortuosity, tortuousness, trick, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, vein, verbiage, verbosity, vividness, way, windiness, wordage, wordcraft, wordiness, wording |
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