rhetoric
adjEtymology
From Middle English rethorik, rhetoric, from Old French rhetorique, from Latin rhētorica, from Ancient Greek ῥητορική (rhētorikḗ), ellipsis of ῥητορικὴ τέχνη (rhētorikḕ tékhnē), from ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speech”), from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”).
- derived from ῥητορική
- derived from rhētorica
- derived from rhetorique
- inherited from rethorik
Definitions
Synonym of rhetorical.
The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
- Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
- It’s only so much rhetoric.
The neighborhood
- synonymspeechcraft
- synonymwordcraft
- neighborpreterition
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at rhetoric. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at rhetoric. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at rhetoric
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA