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Definition of "unrhetorical" []

  • Not rhetorical (adjective)

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Use "unrhetorical" in a sentence
  • "I'm not sure about bombastic; one of the many virtues of this exciting production is that it gives us an intimate, stripped‑down and mercifully unrhetorical version of Schiller's great 1800 romantic tragedy."
  • "In 1985, Elizabeth Rawson, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, speculated that it would probably have been in the Hellenistic tradition of biography—a literary form written in an unpretentious, unrhetorical style; it might quote documents, but it liked apophthegms by its subject, and it could be gossipy and irresponsible . . ."
  • "And, in that respect, this somewhat unrhetorical inaugural address may be appropriate, because this is -- what is going on now is too big for rhetoric."