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rhetoric

noun

1 rhetoric

Using language effectively to please or persuade.

Polish: retoryczność

2 rhetoric

High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.

synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness.

Roget 582: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.    oration, ... show more

Dutch: grootspraak, megalomanie
Polish: grandilokwencja

3 rhetoric

Loud and confused and empty talk:
— Mere rhetoric.

synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver.

Dutch: palaver
Polish: gadanina, gadulstwo

4 rhetoric

Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).

Dutch: redekunde
Polish: retoryka


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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