adumbrative

[ a-duhm-bruh-tiv, ad-uhm-brey-tiv ]

adjective

1. serving to foreshadow; faintly indicative:

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

Other Words From

• ad·um·bra·tive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of adumbrative¹

First recorded in 1830–40; adumbrate + -ive

Example Sentences

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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