rhetoric   (Sound)

The noun rhetoric has 4 senses

• rhetoric -- (using language effectively to please or persuade)


• grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric -- (high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language")


• palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric -- (loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric")


• rhetoric -- (study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking))