Synonyms for rhetorical

Adjective

1. rhetorical

usage: of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

2. rhetorical (vs. unrhetorical), anapestic, anapaestic, bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid, flowery, ornate, forensic, grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall, oratorical, stylistic, embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, purple, poetic, poetical, fancy, figurative#1, nonliteral, formal

usage: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"