allusively
- adverb
- /əˈluːsɪvli/
:
de manera alusiva
- The author wrote allusively, using metaphors to convey deeper meanings beneath the surface of the story.
Examples
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Although this may not have been an intentional image on the part of Gongora, it is interesting that the embrace reaches an allusively sexual level as the runners' simultaneous attainment of the goal is described in terms of the myth of Daphne and Phoebus Apollo.
Academic text (1998) -
In those works, the nineteenth-century Native American experience makes itself known, primarily as background, allusively and in interpolations and flashbacks of certain Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, and Crow Indians.
Academic text (1991) -
Commonly misused allusively as a typical name for a monster who is a terror to his originator and ends by destroying him.
Academic text (2000) -
The burning down of the AIM office in Keshena (eight miles from the novitiate on the Menominee reservation) was allusively blamed on the vigilantes.
Academic text (2002) -
That is why, according to Maimonides, the student of those secrets is required not only to be of mature age, to have a sagacious and subtle mind, to possess perfect command of the art of political government and the speculative sciences, and to be able to understand the allusive speech of others, but also to be capable of presenting things allusively himself.
Academic text (2002) -
He spoke allusively about his past, hinting at secrets without revealing them.
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In her speech, she allusively referred to famous historical figures to make her point more compelling.
Synonyms
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4.2
In a way that does not say something clearly, often by a hint or through someone else
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5.6
In a way that is understood without being directly said
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7.4
In a way that hints at sexual interest without saying it
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7.9
In a way that shows something without saying it
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7.8
Someone speaks in a short, indirect way that only hints at the meaning
In a quiet, sly way that hints at something
Antonyms
How Indirect
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word allusively comes from the same Latin source as allude and allusion, originally from ludere meaning 'to play'. So to speak allusively is to 'play around' an idea or give a gentle hint instead of saying it clearly.