Synonyms:
rhetoric
Meaning: study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
Synonyms:
palaver, hot_air, empty_words, empty_talk, rhetoric
Meaning: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
Synonyms:
grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric
Meaning: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
Synonyms:
rhetoric
Meaning: using language effectively to please or persuade
Usage examples
Addicted to rhetoric.
"Of what good is a display of rhetoric?" he would ask; "who is the better for it?
Mr. Brown's rhetoric had been rather lost on William, because its pearls of sarcasm had been so far above his head.
His mind was slow in acquisition, and his powers of reasoning and rhetoric improved constantly to the end of his life, at a rate of progress marvelously regular and sustained.
He wrote his protest, saying not one word he was not ready to stand by then and thereafter, wasting not a syllable in rhetoric or feeling, keeping close to law and truth and justice.
This difficulty occurs when the same long word is used in different connections to mean quite different things. Thus, to take a well-known instance, the word "idealist" has one meaning as a piece of philosophy and quite another as a piece of moral rhetoric.
In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life.