adumbrant

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adjective

Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.

OriginLatin adumbrāns →
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Meanings

adjectiveadumbrant (comparative more adumbrant, superlative most adumbrant)

comparative more adumbrant · superlative most adumbrant

  1. archaicGiving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.

    the deep hollows of the adumbrant seas

    1888, Charles Martin Newell, The Isle of Palms
    2 more examples

    I cherished only an adumbrant idea of the real intent of the meaning of the artist's design

    1864, Lydia M. Millard, Nepenthe:A Novel

    bring that centre - the Ego - into even an adumbrant existence

    1888, Louis Pope Gratacap, The Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life

Origin

  1. Latinadumbrāns
  2. Englishadumbrant

An 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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APA

adumbrant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrant

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“adumbrant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adumbrant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrant.

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