adumbrated

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adjective

Obscured.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of adumbrate
adjectiveadumbrated (comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated)

comparative more adumbrated · superlative most adumbrated

  1. comparableObscured.

    We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.

    1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43
  2. comparableForeshadowed.
  3. governmentDepicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)
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APA

adumbrated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrated

MLA

“adumbrated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrated. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adumbrated,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrated.

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