Allusive

//əˈluː.sɪv//

Synonyms for "allusive" (23 found)

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Translations

15 translations across 13 languages.

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Armenian

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  • ակնարկիչ adj (containing or making use of allusions)
  • ակնարկող adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Bulgarian

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  • загатващ adj (containing or making use of allusions)
  • намекващ adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Catalan

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  • al·lusiu adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Chinese Cantonese

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  • 暗指嘅 adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Dutch

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  • zinspelend adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Finnish

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  • vihjaileva adj (containing or making use of allusions)

French

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  • allusif adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Irish

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  • tagrach adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Italian

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  • allusivo adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Polish

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  • aluzyjny adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Portuguese

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  • alusivo adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Romanian

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  • aluziv adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Spanish

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  • alusivo adj (containing or making use of allusions)

Sample sentences

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English poetry is compelled by the stubbornness of the language continually to renounce the too obviously poetic: but in seeking to be more precise, more dense and more allusive, Russian poetry has never had to give up the straightforward traditional intoxications of sound and rhyme.

Source: wiktionary

The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations.

Source: wiktionary

2013, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou (translators and editors), Introduction, Unknown author, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds, [14th c, Παιδιόφραστος διήγησις τῶν ζῴων τῶν τετραπόδων], page 87, The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator.

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Around they go, taking in the poem's allusive system of images and its narrative density, the emotional heat of its subject matter, its increasing cultural salience re: women, re: trauma, re: bodies, re: life at the end of the world.

Source: wiktionary

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