adumbrant
adumbrant · more adumbrant · most adumbrant
Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or forebodingGiving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic)Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
Origin
An adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active pAn adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active participle of adumbrō (“to cast a shadow upon”).
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Forms
more adumbrant, most adumbrant| Comparative | more adumbrant Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most adumbrant Lesson |
regular
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedadumbrate
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
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