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adumbrated en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (comparable) Obscured.
    • We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings. 1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:
  2. (comparable) Foreshadowed.
  3. Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most adumbrated Degree=Sup lexicographic
more adumbrated Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Coordinates

shadowed · umbrated

Deriveds

unadumbrated

Relateds

adumbration

adumbrated en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of adumbrate
    form of adumbrate