Plain and Rhetorical

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Plain

Plain adjective - Not elaborate or elaborated; simple.
Usage example: plain food
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Rhetorical is an antonym for plain.
Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Rhetorical

Rhetorical adjective - Marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.
Usage example: you can skip over the rhetorical passages and still get the gist of the essay
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Antonyms for Rhetorical
Plain is an antonym for rhetorical.
Nearby Words: rhetoric, rhetorician, rhetor, rhetorically
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Both words in one sentence

  • The unnamed minor character standing in plain sight for six hundred pages, rather than a rhetorical question.
    Source: Chekhovs Gunman / Literature
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