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allusive

[ uh-loo-siv ]

adjective

  1. having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
  2. Obsolete. metaphorical; symbolic; figurative.


allusive

/ əˈluːsɪv /

adjective

  1. containing or full of allusions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • alˈlusiveness, noun
  • alˈlusively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • al·lusive·ly adverb
  • al·lusive·ness noun
  • unal·lusive adjective
  • unal·lusive·ly adverb
  • unal·lusive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of allusive1

First recorded in 1595–1605; allus(ion) + -ive
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Example Sentences

The term is appropriately open-ended, since the participants devise pieces that are minimalist and mysteriously allusive.

This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive.

The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive.

He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive.

Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.

Of course, they are not ready for the indirect and allusive manner, nor for the lyric egoism, of the pure literary essay.

Of course letters enable you to evade some of the difficulties of the novelist's task, to be discursive, allusive and incomplete.

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