allusive

Examples

• All

• His prose was anything but prosaic; it was vivid, allusive, and sprinkled with humor.

  Academic text (2000)

• Ah, the allusive Ms. Rains.

  Cube Zero (2004)

• The Figure of the Beloved and Her Allusive Powers

  Academic text (2002)

• The window images can be helpful, but not in any thematic or allusive way.

  Academic text (1999)

• Paradise in the allusive sense: there are hints in Paradise of how your life deserves to be judged.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Our inequalities have meanings both referential and allusive.

  Academic text (2009)

• Forgiveness and civility, in Addison's hands, take shape as public virtues, allusive of civility's past association with citizenship and government.

  Academic text (2009)

• Here I would invoke the wonderfully allusive remark of Rudolph Virchow, the eminent nineteenth-century pathologist.

  Academic text (1993)

• Her speech was allusive, hinting at deeper meanings without stating them directly.

• The film is allusive, using subtle imagery to comment on social issues.

Synonyms

I

implicative

vsallusive

7.9

Often suggesting something without saying it directly

refers indirectly by pointing to a specific person work or idea

Antonyms

D

direct

574 1.0

Straight and without anything in between, for example a route

E

explicit

142 4.8

Clear and detailed so there is no confusion

How Indirect

cryptic

43 8.1

oblique

5 7.4

allusive

1 8.1

implicit

49 6.1

direct

302 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology