adumbrative

[ a-duhm-bruh-tiv, ad-uhm-brey-tiv ]
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adjective
  1. serving to foreshadow; faintly indicative: The painting is adumbrative of later, more fully developed Christian imagery.

Origin of adumbrative

1
First recorded in 1830–40; adumbrate + -ive

Other words from adumbrative

  • ad·um·bra·tive·ly, adverb

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How to use adumbrative in a sentence

  • We claim to stand there, as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much.

    The French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle