Definition of rhetorical question
: a question not intended to require an answer
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rhetorical
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: of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric
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: employed for rhetorical effect
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: given to rhetoric : grandiloquent
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question
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: an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge
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: an interrogative sentence or clause
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: a subject or aspect in dispute or open for discussion : issue
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: to ask a question of or about
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: to interrogate intensively : cross-examine
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: doubt, dispute
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