Synonyms of the word rhetoric


RHETORICBUNK - GRANDILOQUENCE - GRANDIOSITY - HOKUM - MAGNILOQUENCE - MEANINGLESSNESS - NONSENSE - NONSENSICALITY - ORNATENESS - PALAVER - STYLE

rhetoric

  • adj. Synonym of rhetorical.
  • n. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
  • n. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

grandiloquence

  • n. lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.

grandiosity

  • n. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).

hokum

  • n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

magniloquence

  • n. The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

meaninglessness

  • n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
  • n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

  • n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
  • n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

ornateness

  • n. The state of being ornate.

palaver

  • n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
  • n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
  • n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
  • n. (informal) Disagreement.
  • v. To discuss with much talk.

style

  • n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
  • n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
  • n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
  • n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
  • n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
  • n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
  • n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
  • n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
  • n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
  • n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
  • n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
  • n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
  • v. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
  • v. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.

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