thematic
Origin of thematic
1Other words from thematic
- the·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·the·mat·ic, adjective
- non·the·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·the·mat·ic, adjective
- un·the·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby thematic
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How to use thematic in a sentence
When you consider how many current shows’ thematic reach exceeds their grasp, that’s kind of refreshing.
Glossy Starz Comedy Run the World Is Living Single for 30-Somethings | Judy Berman | May 16, 2021 | TimeWhile there are some rewarding side quests that may speed along this process, needing to buy each one of the dozens of weapons in the game doesn’t seem to serve any narrative or thematic purpose besides prolonging the play time.
‘Nier Replicant’ is an experimental, heartbreaking pop album of a video game | Gene Park | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s a setup rich with dramatic as well as thematic potential.
Can the Ambitious, Uneven Rutherford Falls Do for American History What The Good Place Did for Philosophy? | Judy Berman | April 22, 2021 | TimeOne I received about two months ago lacked the thematic optimism of the others.
My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed. | Jeff Henigson | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostI think it’s going to end up being more thematic in terms of how we think about identifiers.
Media Briefing: Publishers are switching up their paywalls | Tim Peterson | March 25, 2021 | Digiday
When he first pitched it to me for The Dark Knight, I liked the thematic idea, but I found it possibly a little far-fetched.
Christopher Nolan Uncut: On ‘Interstellar,’ Ben Affleck’s Batman, and the Future of Mankind | Marlow Stern | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe exhibition explores four thematic roads, the first of which is the routes of our earliest ancestors.
Domestic violence, for example, has provided thematic fodder for generations of writers and filmmakers.
Do you see thematic similarities between The Leftovers and Lost?
From ‘Lost’ to The Rapture: Creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta on HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ | Marlow Stern | June 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith Do It Again, is that cohesion musical, sonic, or thematic?
Robyn and Royksopp’s Summertime Soundtrack ‘Do It Again’ | Andrew Romano | May 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe thematic material is almost entirely derivative and imitative, of an unequaled mediocrity and depressingness.
Musical Portraits | Paul RosenfeldThere are whole passages that exist only in obedience to some scholastic demand for thematic inversions and deformations.
Musical Portraits | Paul RosenfeldNot all of her works have been published, but all show good thematic material and an unusual sense of musical form.
Woman's Work in Music | Arthur Elsonthematic elaboration is only hinted at, except in the well worked-out middle movement of the finale.
Life Of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3) | Otto JahnThis is most obviously apparent in those parts where thematic elaboration predominates, which are richer and freer than hitherto.
Life Of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3) | Otto Jahn
British Dictionary definitions for thematic
/ (θɪˈmætɪk) /
of, relating to, or consisting of a theme or themes
linguistics denoting a word that is the theme of a sentence
grammar
denoting a vowel or other sound or sequence of sounds that occurs between the root of a word and any inflectional or derivational suffixes
of or relating to the stem or root of a word
grammar a thematic vowel: ``-o-'' is a thematic in the combining form ``psycho-''
Derived forms of thematic
- thematically, adverb
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