RHETORICAL

adj. 1 stylistic, linguistic, poetic, expressive, oratorical Zeugma, hysteron proteron, and anacoluthon are all terms for rhetorical devices 2 artificial, contrived, for effect, unanswerable, not literal The question, 'Why don't you drop dead', was purely rhetorical 3 pretentious, bombastic, flamboyant, extravagant, florid, fustian, high-flown, inflated, grandiose, euphuistic, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, long-winded, windy, orotund, wordy, prolix, sesquipedalian, Colloq highfalutin or hifalutin The rhetorical style of Crampton's parliamentary speeches appear to be doing the party more harm than good