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Definition of oratorical in English: oratoricaladjective ɒrəˈtɒrɪk(ə)lˌɔrəˈtɔrək(ə)l Relating to the art or practice of public speaking. Example sentencesExamples - Yet the poet is imitating established oratorical traditions in these poems, choosing among formal and generic modes of persuading the powerful, praising the virtuous, and chastising the wicked.
- In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
- I found him at first too oratorical and flowery.
- Yet despite the seductions of his oratorical style, he frets about losing his audience.
- The writing has an oratorical eloquence marked in places by mannerisms probably deriving from oral delivery.
Synonyms rhetorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, sonorous, lofty, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, turgid, extravagant, flowery, florid, declamatory, Ciceronian informal highfalutin rare epideictic, fustian, euphuistic, aureate, Demosthenic, Demosthenean
Derivativesadverb ˌɒrəˈtɒrɪkli In Berlin he meets Sasha, a brilliant, charismatic, oratorically gifted, powerfully heterosexual ideologue who becomes his friend. Example sentencesExamples - Anton Sching, with a rumbling bass voice and a mustache that swept his breast, got up and roared oratorically in German about the wickedness and oppression practiced on all saloonkeepers by the odious growlerworkers.
Rhymesahistorical, allegorical, categorical, historical, metaphorical, phantasmagorical, rhetorical Definition of oratorical in US English: oratoricaladjectiveˌôrəˈtôrək(ə)lˌɔrəˈtɔrək(ə)l Relating to the art or practice of public speaking. Example sentencesExamples - Yet the poet is imitating established oratorical traditions in these poems, choosing among formal and generic modes of persuading the powerful, praising the virtuous, and chastising the wicked.
- Yet despite the seductions of his oratorical style, he frets about losing his audience.
- In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation.
- The writing has an oratorical eloquence marked in places by mannerisms probably deriving from oral delivery.
- I found him at first too oratorical and flowery.
Synonyms rhetorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, sonorous, lofty, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, turgid, extravagant, flowery, florid, declamatory, ciceronian
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