Allusive

/əˈluː.sɪv/

Synonyms for "allusive" (41 found)

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Closest matches (9)

Verb(1 words)
Adjective(7 words)
brobdingnagianclassical allusionconnotativecoyestellipticevocativeevocative writing

Strong matches (12)

Related words (20)

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More general

3 entries
linguistic stylerhetorical strategyrhetorical technique

More specific

6 entries
allusive poetryallusive proseallusive rhetoricelliptical reasoningimplicit referencesindirect arguments

Inflections

4 entries
least allusiveless allusivemore allusivemost allusive

Derivations

4 entries

similar

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

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