Adumbrated
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of adumbrate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Obscured. comparable
"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."
- 2 Foreshadowed. comparable
- 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.)
Example
More examples"To be honest, my duties here are very ill defined, or rather not defined at all, but only adumbrated."