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unanswerable, not literal: The question, 'Why don't you drop
dead', was purely rhetorical. 3 pretentious, bombastic,
flamboyant, extravagant, florid, fustian, high-flown, inflated,
grandiose, euphuistic, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent,
long-winded, windy, orotund, wordy, prolix, sesquipedalian,
Colloq highfalutin or hifalutin: The rhetorical style of
Crampton's parliamentary speeches appear to be doing the party
more harm than good.
rhyme n. 1 rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical
composition, song: The art of rhyme may well be coincident with
the earliest stages of language. 2 rhyme or reason. (common)
sense, logic, intelligence, meaning, wisdom, rationality,
rationale, soundness, organization, structure: There appears to
be no rhyme or reason behind the bombing of the library.
rhythm n. tempo, beat, cadence or cadency, throb, throbbing, accent,
accentuation, time, timing, stress or rhythmic(al) pattern,
measure, metre, pulse, lilt, Music downbeat, thesis, upbeat,
arsis: The song is in samba rhythm.
rhythmic adj. rhythmical, measured, cadenced, throbbing, pulsing,
pulsating, regular, steady, beating: The rhythmic sound of the
waves soon sent me to sleep.
18.4 ribaldry...
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ribaldry n. vulgarity, immodesty, indelicacy, indecency, coarseness,
bawdiness, earthiness, wantonness, raciness, naughtiness,
shamelessness, lustfulness, rakishness, rascality,
dissoluteness, lubricity, lasciviousness, looseness, scurrility
or scurrilousness, lewdness, salaciousness, licentiousness,
grossness, offensiveness, rankness, rudeness, smuttiness, smut,
dirt, filth, foulness, obscenity: The ribaldry of some of
Chaucer's tales makes them not altogether suitable for
schoolchildren.
rich adj. 1 wealthy, affluent, prosperous, well-to-do, well off,
well provided for, opulent, moneyed, in clover, on velvet,
Colloq flush, loaded, on Easy Street, rolling in it or money or
wealth, in the chips or the dough or the money, well-heeled, US