Synonyms

adumbrative

American

[a-duhm-bruh-tiv, ad-uhm-brey-tiv] / æˈdʌm brə tɪv, ˈæd əmˌbreɪ tɪv /

adjective

serving to foreshadow; faintly indicative.

The painting is adumbrative of later, more fully developed Christian imagery.

Other Word Forms

adumbratively

adverb

Etymology

Origin of adumbrative

First recorded in 1830–40; adumbrate + -ive

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adumbrative

Like the somber Hawthorne's, his style is brooding, adumbrative, rather than incisive or brilliant, and it often limps among the facts of his story like a man in pain.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel

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