Definition of adumbrate in English:

adumbrate

verb ˈadʌmbreɪt

[with object]formal

1Represent in outline.
〈正式〉简介，报告概要，展示轮廓
Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state
霍布豪斯已经简略地介绍了福利国家这一概念。
Example sentencesExamples
- The outlines of the legend of the politically naïve scholar are already adumbrated in the biographical essay Heidegger submitted to the de-Nazification committee in 1945.
- (Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ).
- This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum.
- Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
- As to 5: The answer is plainly ‘Yes’ and for the reasons already adumbrated.
- Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven.
- Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow.
- An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite.
1. 1.1 Indicate faintly.
  隐约显示
  the walls were only adumbrated by the meagre light
  几面墙只是在朦胧的光线下显示出轮廓来。
  Synonyms
  augur, presage, portend, foretell, prophesy, predict
2Foreshadow (a future event)
预示（未来事件）
tenors solemnly adumbrate the fate of the convicted sinner
中音声部庄严肃穆，预示着罪人的命运。
Example sentencesExamples
- Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career.
3Overshadow.
遮蔽，给…投下阴影，使…失色
her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else
她想起了其他的一些事，幸福的回忆也因而失色。
Example sentencesExamples
- Consciousness does not perspectivally adumbrate itself.
Synonyms
hide, conceal, cover, veil, shroud, screen, mask, cloak, cast a shadow over, shadow, envelop, mantle, block, block out, blank out, obliterate, eclipse, overshadow

Derivatives

adumbration

noun adʌmˈbreɪʃ(ə)nˌædəmˈbreɪʃ(ə)n

formal

John watched the way she moved and the way the fire light played against her warm colored skin, highlighting through the refined weave in the gown she wore and the adumbration beneath the veil.
Example sentencesExamples
- The predominance of death in the novel is a prophetic adumbration of the real death which will bring the characters to God's love, and Eleanor is granted a vision of this when she meets Leopolda the Catholic nun on the night of the storm.
- The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is.
- We have remarked on Hahn's adumbrations of this movement in an earlier one, but one senses a disconnect between the end of the ‘Gigue’ and the beginning of the ‘Ciaccona.’
- Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right.

adumbrative

adjective əˈdʌmbrətɪv

formal

The adumbrative quality of the work's first third is mauled and mangled by the third.
Example sentencesExamples
- For him language is musical, felicitous, comical, flippant, suggestive, buoyant weaponry and adumbrative of mysteries beyond us.
- This duet is adumbrative of ‘Trane's last album, Interstellar Space, which comprises duets between ‘Trane and drummer Rashied Ali.
- Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
- And in fact there was an adumbrative whisper of Warholian values to come in a letter Demuth wrote to Alfred Stieglitz in 1927.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- 'shaded', from the verb adumbrare, from ad- 'to' (as an intensifier) + umbrare 'cast a shadow' (from umbra 'shade').

Definition of adumbrate in US English:

adumbrate

verb

[with object]formal

1Report or represent in outline.
〈正式〉简介，报告概要，展示轮廓
James Madison adumbrated the necessity that the Senate be somewhat insulated from public passions
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
- (Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ).
- An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite.
- The outlines of the legend of the politically naïve scholar are already adumbrated in the biographical essay Heidegger submitted to the de-Nazification committee in 1945.
- Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven.
- Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow.
- As to 5: The answer is plainly ‘Yes’ and for the reasons already adumbrated.
- This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum.
1. 1.1 Indicate faintly.
  隐约显示
  the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light
  几面墙只是在朦胧的光线下显示出轮廓来。
  Synonyms
  augur, presage, portend, foretell, prophesy, predict
2. 1.2 Foreshadow or symbolize.
  what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine?
  Example sentencesExamples
  Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career.
3. 1.3 Overshadow.
  遮蔽，给…投下阴影，使…失色
  her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else
  她想起了其他的一些事，幸福的回忆也因而失色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Consciousness does not perspectivally adumbrate itself.
  Synonyms
  hide, conceal, cover, veil, shroud, screen, mask, cloak, cast a shadow over, shadow, envelop, mantle, block, block out, blank out, obliterate, eclipse, overshadow

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’).

词汇	adumbrate
释义	Definition of adumbrate in English: adumbrate verb ˈadʌmbreɪt [with object]formal 1Represent in outline. 〈正式〉简介，报告概要，展示轮廓 Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state 霍布豪斯已经简略地介绍了福利国家这一概念。 Example sentencesExamples The outlines of the legend of the politically naïve scholar are already adumbrated in the biographical essay Heidegger submitted to the de-Nazification committee in 1945. (Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ). This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum. Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that. As to 5: The answer is plainly ‘Yes’ and for the reasons already adumbrated. Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven. Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow. An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite. 1.1 Indicate faintly. 隐约显示 the walls were only adumbrated by the meagre light 几面墙只是在朦胧的光线下显示出轮廓来。 Synonyms augur, presage, portend, foretell, prophesy, predict 2Foreshadow (a future event) 预示（未来事件） tenors solemnly adumbrate the fate of the convicted sinner 中音声部庄严肃穆，预示着罪人的命运。 Example sentencesExamples Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career. 3Overshadow. 遮蔽，给…投下阴影，使…失色 her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else 她想起了其他的一些事，幸福的回忆也因而失色。 Example sentencesExamples Consciousness does not perspectivally adumbrate itself. Synonyms hide, conceal, cover, veil, shroud, screen, mask, cloak, cast a shadow over, shadow, envelop, mantle, block, block out, blank out, obliterate, eclipse, overshadow Derivatives adumbration noun adʌmˈbreɪʃ(ə)nˌædəmˈbreɪʃ(ə)n formal John watched the way she moved and the way the fire light played against her warm colored skin, highlighting through the refined weave in the gown she wore and the adumbration beneath the veil. Example sentencesExamples The predominance of death in the novel is a prophetic adumbration of the real death which will bring the characters to God's love, and Eleanor is granted a vision of this when she meets Leopolda the Catholic nun on the night of the storm. The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is. We have remarked on Hahn's adumbrations of this movement in an earlier one, but one senses a disconnect between the end of the ‘Gigue’ and the beginning of the ‘Ciaccona.’ Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right. adumbrative adjective əˈdʌmbrətɪv formal The adumbrative quality of the work's first third is mauled and mangled by the third. Example sentencesExamples For him language is musical, felicitous, comical, flippant, suggestive, buoyant weaponry and adumbrative of mysteries beyond us. This duet is adumbrative of ‘Trane's last album, Interstellar Space, which comprises duets between ‘Trane and drummer Rashied Ali. Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament. And in fact there was an adumbrative whisper of Warholian values to come in a letter Demuth wrote to Alfred Stieglitz in 1927. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- 'shaded', from the verb adumbrare, from ad- 'to' (as an intensifier) + umbrare 'cast a shadow' (from umbra 'shade'). Definition of adumbrate in US English: adumbrate verb [with object]formal 1Report or represent in outline. 〈正式〉简介，报告概要，展示轮廓 James Madison adumbrated the necessity that the Senate be somewhat insulated from public passions Example sentencesExamples Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that. (Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ). An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite. The outlines of the legend of the politically naïve scholar are already adumbrated in the biographical essay Heidegger submitted to the de-Nazification committee in 1945. Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven. Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow. As to 5: The answer is plainly ‘Yes’ and for the reasons already adumbrated. This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum. 1.1 Indicate faintly. 隐约显示 the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light 几面墙只是在朦胧的光线下显示出轮廓来。 Synonyms augur, presage, portend, foretell, prophesy, predict 1.2 Foreshadow or symbolize. what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine? Example sentencesExamples Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career. 1.3 Overshadow. 遮蔽，给…投下阴影，使…失色 her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else 她想起了其他的一些事，幸福的回忆也因而失色。 Example sentencesExamples Consciousness does not perspectivally adumbrate itself. Synonyms hide, conceal, cover, veil, shroud, screen, mask, cloak, cast a shadow over, shadow, envelop, mantle, block, block out, blank out, obliterate, eclipse, overshadow Origin Late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’).
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