- rhetorical
- adj1. eloquent, articulate, well-spoken, silver-tongued, Archaic. facund, Obs. facundious, Ciceronian; (all of speech) poetic, graceful, easy, facile, flowing, fluent, glib, slick, smooth, smoothtongued.2.(all of speech) expressive, cogent, telling; forceful, emphatic, spirited, vigorous, impassioned, trenchant, vehement, burning; striking, vivid, graphic; effective, persuasive, impressive; concise, succinct, pointed, pithy, meaty.3. bombastic, bombastical, orotund, fustian, haughty, pretentious, ostentatious, flaunting; grandiose, magniloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high-hat; inflated, swollen, bloated, turgid, tumid, flatulent, plethoric; euphuistic, periphrastic, extravagant, oratorical, ranting, mouthy, declamatory; flamboyant, flashy, ornate, ornamental, showy, flowery, florid.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.