Other Word Forms
- diagrammatically adverb
- nondiagrammatic adjective
- nondiagrammatical adjective
- nondiagrammatically adverb
- undiagrammatic adjective
- undiagrammatical adjective
- undiagrammatically adverb
Etymology
Origin of diagrammatic
1850–55; diagram + -atic as in problem, problematic
Example Sentences
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More problematic is the diagrammatic nature of the storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Writing in The Times, Roberta Smith said his small ink drawings and gouaches “operate somewhere in the gap between William Wegman’s drolly captioned early drawings and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s acerbic diagrammatic images.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
Learning from their experiences, BDP has produced a “how to” guide, drawn in the clear diagrammatic style of an Ikea furniture-building manual, to help other projects.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2020
Figure 3.17 provides a diagrammatic representation of the proportions of dark minerals in light-coloured rocks.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This set of five volumes contains about 2,500 pages with thousands of illustrations, including diagrammatic and sectional drawings with full explanatory details.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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