English Explanatory Dictionary

adumbrant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

Word forms

adumbrant more adumbrant most adumbrant

Etymology

An adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active participle of adumbrō (“to cast a shadow upon”).

Related words

adumbrance adumbrate
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