rhetorical
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rhetorical /rɪˈtɒrɪk(ə)l/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to or concerned with rhetoric.
■ expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress.
- 2 (of a question) asked for effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information.
– derivatives
rhetorically adverb.
rhetorically adverb.
'rhetorical' also found in these Oxford entries:
antithesis
- antithetical
- declaim
- declamation
- epideictic
- figure of speech
- inversion
- onomatopoeia
- oratory
- periodic
- preterition
