a style strongly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s novelsreminiscentrem‧i‧nis‧cent /ˌreməˈnɪsənt/ ●○○ adjective 
a style strongly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s novels2 literary thinking about the past: Her face wore a reminiscent smile.
WORD ORIGINreminiscent
Origin:
1700-1800 Latin present participle of reminisci ‘to remember’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- "Those were the days," agreed Barrow with a reminiscent sigh.
- Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario positively demolished her opponents with a ruthlessness reminiscent of Navratilova's great rival of the 1980's, Chris Evert.
- Experts see the rise in borrowing as disturbingly reminiscent of the credit boom in the 1980s.
- For Oldenberg it was reminiscent of Tatlin's tower and should have incorporated a telescopic element.
- Households in the Coventry area report that they are being subjected to intimidation reminiscent of this time.
- Our understanding of development is at a stage reminiscent of genetics in the 1930s.
- The boy had grown sturdy and handsome, his green eyes and dark hair so reminiscent of his father.
- Their jumbled stories are reminiscent of the black-bordered figures typical of so-called Figuration Libre.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a style strongly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s novelsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
a style strongly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s novels· The scene was more reminiscent of the nineteenth century than the twenty-first.· Why had such disputes reverted to a pattern of disorder more reminiscent of the nineteenth than twentieth century?· Meg herself is more reminiscent of Deborah Kerr on acid.· The letters he wrote to her are more reminiscent of his earliest letters than anything else that he wrote as archbishop.
· In other respects too, he is strongly reminiscent of Kant.
· The shape of the cheeks - if slightly too reminiscent of a cadaver - had a certain elegance.· It was too reminiscent of the way John Butler had ended Portrait of Billie.· To Ken, it was all too reminiscent of his own life in the Army, but he enjoyed the filming.
· The massive pillars of its nave are very reminiscent of the Norman splendours of Durham cathedral.· The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.· There is something in this pattern of behaviour that is very reminiscent of some addictive or compulsive behaviours.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1reminiscent of something reminding you of something: - We ate in a cozy dining room slightly reminiscent of a ski lodge.
a style strongly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s novels2 literary thinking about the past: Her face wore a reminiscent smile.