单词 | adumbral |
释义 | adumbraladj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade umbrosea1425 shadowing1552 umbrate?1553 shadeful1563 shady1579 shadinga1586 umbrageous1587 shadowy1607 umbriferous1616 umbratile1659 umbracious1839 adumbral1845 umbering1872 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 246 This circular adumbral and pluvial roofing had to be adapted to the female head. b. Shadowy, shady. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade shadowy1398 shadowed1400 umbrous1480 shadowish1530 shadeful1563 shadowous1585 shady1589 umbrageous1622 shaded1635 swaly1820 adumbral1855 umbraged1890 1855 R. K. Ashley Glances over Field of Faith & Reason iii. 90 The conception of this king of profane poets is but the repetition of the scriptural adumbral rationality. 1917 M. Foster Shoestrings x. 126 Gloom settled on him as he trudged along. It was a gloom, too, adumbral in its depth, its density. 1981 D. R. Koontz Mask iii. 70 Later that night, in her darkened bedroom, Carol Tracy stared at the adumbral ceiling and listened to her husband's soft, steady breathing. 2003 L. Edwards Oscar Wilde discovers Amer. 282 It was obviously challenging work, attempting to humanize an adumbral presence. ΚΠ 1880 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 20 364 The tubular capsules occupy a position between the abumbral and adumbral ectoderm layers which constitute the velum. 1893 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 337 There is no tubular extension of the capsules into the adumbral ectoderm layer of the velum as there is in Limnocodium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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