Pointillistic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.
"a pointillistic work of art"
- 2 Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism. broadly
"Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions."
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to pointillism wordnet
Example
More examples"Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions."
Etymology
From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.