oratorical

/ˌɒɹəˈtɒɹɪkəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

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adj

"A to'oto'o is a Sāmoan oratorical staff."
"The rest were looking at Coker curiously. It was the first time they had heard him in one of his oratorical moods."
"I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance."

From orator or oratory + -ical, or else from Latin ōrātōrius.

oratorically unoratorical

oracle allegorical coracle

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How do you pronounce oratorical?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɒɹəˈtɒɹɪkəl/.

What does oratorical mean?

of, or relating to oratory or an orator.

Where does oratorical come from?

It is traced to Latin.

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