adumbratedadj.
/ˈadʌmbreɪtᵻd/, /ˈadəmbreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈædəmˌbreɪdᵻd/, /əˈdəmˌbreɪdᵻd/ Represented faintly or in outline; shady, shadowy. Also: foreshadowed or foreshadowing.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct
dimc1000
blinda1398
undistingued1398
obscure?a1450
undistinct1495
shadowed1588
undistinguishable1600
shady1626
blear1637
filmed1637
indistinguishable1642
crepusculous1646
adumbrated1650
oblite1650
faint1660
monogrammous1678
blurred1701
faintish1712
wispya1717
adumbrant1727
muzzy1744
indistinct1764
fuzzy1778
misty1797
shadowy1797
undistinguished1814
woolly1815
vague1822
furzy1825
mystified1833
slurred1843
feeble1860
smudginga1861
filmy1864
smudgy1865
blurry1884
slurry1937
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [adjective] > foreshadowed, prefigured
figurate1563
adumbrated1650
foreshown1844
foreshadowed1866
1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 130 By the sigillation or engravement of the Soul upon the seed, whereby the matter of the seed doth obtain a requisite maturity and adumbrated figure.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Adumbrated, shadowed, resembled.
1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation p. iii The sublimest Height those adumbrated Minds could at that Time possibly amount to.
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 386/2 Tapps..creeping through existence under the adumbrated essence of metaphorical seclusion!
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. iv. 64 The vaguely adumbrated idealism of the Siris.
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence I. iii. 202 Thus we rehearse the activities of our ancestors, back we know not how far, and repeat their life work in summative and adumbrated ways.
1970 Mind 79 555 Drawing back, cringing, and other postures expressive of fear are recognizable as adumbrated forms of avoidance-behaviour.
2010 S. J. Ellman When Theories Touch vi. 252 Abraham's views only provided an adumbrated picture of Klein's vibrant concepts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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