Adumbrative

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Shadowing forth; faintly resembling; foreshadowing or typical.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Faintly representing; typical.
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  • adjective. Of or pertaining to adumbration
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  • adjective. indistinctly prophetic
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    typical