rhetorical question

1. 1.

   a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered

   “he liked to make his points with rhetorical questions”

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Questions about rhetorical question

What does rhetorical question mean?

rhetorical question means "a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered".

Is rhetorical question a common word?

rhetorical question is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.