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ORATORICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oratorical mean?
• ORATORICAL (adjective)
The adjective ORATORICAL has 1 sense:
1. characteristic of an orator or oratory
Familiarity information: ORATORICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of an orator or oratory
Context example:
harangued his men in an oratorical way
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
Derivation:
orator (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
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