Adumbrate

Definitions: Adumbrate

Adumbrate

Verb

1. Describe roughly or briefly; "sketch the outline of the book".

2. Give to understand.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adumbrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Etymology: Adumbrate \Ad*um"brate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression adumbratus, past participle of adumbrare; ad umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Adumbrate

Metaphor

Verb: employ -metaphor; Noun: personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.

Representation

Verb: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; Noun: hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold.

Albanian

parashikoj (anticipate, contemplate, divine, dope, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, look forward to, predict, previse, prognosticate, time, visualize), përvijoj (delineate), errësoj (becloud, bedim, black out, blur, darken, dim, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طلل, ‏خطط (blueprint, chart, delimit, delineate, design, draught, limn, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, protract, scheme, set out, streak, stripe, trace), ‏أشار أو يرمز إلى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скицирам (delineate, line, outline, plan, plot, rough-hew, sketch, trace, vignette), очертавам (contour, define, delineate, line, mark out, outline, sketch, trace out), нахвърлям (jot down, outline, pounce, skeletonize, sketch, throw off), засенчвам (blanket, dim, efface, obscure, outshine, out-top, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shade, show up, upstage), затъмнявам (becloud, black out, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, occult, outshine, out-top, shade, shadow), предвещавам (augur, betoken, bode, forerun, foreshadow, portend, presage, prognosticate, shadow, spell, threaten), предзнаменувам (foreshadow, foretoken). (various references)

Czech

nastínit (delineate, outline). (various references)

Farsi 

مبهم کردن (Obscure), سایه افکندن بر (Overshadow, Shadow). (various references)

French

faire pressentir, esquisser, ébaucher. (various references)

German

skizzieren (delineate, draft, drafts, outline, plan, sketch, to outline, trace). (various references)

Greek 

σκιαγραφώ (block in, delineate, outline, silhouette, sketch), προοιονίζομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרטט (block, draft, draught, draw, sketch), ל�"תוות (delineate, sketch). (various references)

Hungarian

vázol (delineate, drawn, drew, scheme, sketch, to adumbrate, to crayon, to delineate, to draft, to draw, to scheme, to sketch), jósol (augur, bode, forecast, foretell, foretold, prophesy, tell fortunes, to augur, to bode, to foretell, to presage, to prognosticate, to prophesy, to read sy's hand, to vaticinate), felvázol (draw up, to adumbrate, to crayon, to crayon out a plan, to delineate, to design, to feature, to trace, trace), elõrevetít. (various references)

Indonesian

membayangkan (imagine, reflect an image, show). (various references)

Italian

schizzare (bedabble, dabble, jet, jump, sketch, spatter, splash, splash up, splatter, spring, spurt, squirt). (various references)

Manx

ceau scadoo. (various references)

Pig Latin

adumbrateay

Portuguese

adumbrar, eclipsar (eclogue, effacement, occult, outshine, overshadow), delinear (block, delineate, design, map, outline, plan, trace), deixar entrever (hinterland). (various references)

Romanian

adumbri (shade), umbri (blur, cloud, darken, dim, eclipse, obfuscate, screen, shade, worsen), schiţa (block in, block out, chalk out, chart, delineate, design, draw, figure, outline, pencil, plan, rough draft, sketch, take a sketch of), prezenta sumar, prefigura (foreshadow, prefigure). (various references)

Russian 

затемнять (becloud, bedim, black out, blind, darken, dim, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skicirati (block out, draft, outline, sketch), opisati u glavnim crtama, ocrtati (define, delineate, outline, sketch). (various references)

Spanish

adumbrar, sombrar, presagiar (bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, omen, portend, presage, promise, spell), bosquejar (block in, block out, draft, draught, outline, sketch). (various references)

Swedish

antyda (foreshadow, give smb. to understand, hint, hint at, imply, indicate, infer, insinuate, intimate, suggest), förebåda (augur, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, omen, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise), överskugga (eclipse, override, overshadow). (various references)

Turkish

taslağını çizmek (delineate, draft, draught, draw, draw out, outline, rough in, rough out, roughcast, sketch), sezdirmek (let on, make feel, make understand, shadow forth, shadow out, suggest), ima etmek (allude to, give smb. to understand, hint at, imply, import, insinuate, intimate, mention, refer, shadow forth, shadow out, sign, suggest), hissettirmek (hint, make feel, make understand, shadow forth, shadow out), dokundurmak (gibe, hint, jibe, make touch). (various references)

Ukranian 

робити начерк (sketch), кидати тінь (overshadow), накреслювати контур, затемнювати (bedarken, bedim, blind, darken, deface, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, obumbrate, overshadow), провіщати (bode, cast, divine, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, shadow, signify, threaten, vaticinate, warn), передрікати (forecast, prophesy, soothsay). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adumbrate": adumbrated, adumbrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adumbrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adumbra, alumbrate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: drumbeat.

-2 letters: amateur, aurated, matured, rumbaed, tambura.

-3 letters: abated, abater, abrade, arbute, aubade, aurate, bateau, bemata, bruted, datura, dauber, dreamt, dumber, maraud, marted, mature, ramate, remuda, tabard, tabued, tambur, trauma, umbrae.

-4 letters: abate, abeam, amber, ameba, ardeb, armed, armet, aurae, baaed, barde, bared, bated, beard, beaut, bread, bream, brume, brute, buret, damar, dater, datum, daube, debar, debut, demur, derat, derma, drama, dream, embar, madre, mated, mater, mudra, mured, muted, muter, rabat, ramet, rated, reata, rebut, redub, rumba, taber, tamed, tamer, tared, trade, tread, trued, tubae, tubed, tuber, umber, umbra, urate.

-5 letters: abed, abet, abut, area, arum, atma, aura, bade, bard, bare, barm, bate, baud, bead, beam, bear, beat, beau, bedu, bema, berm, beta, brad, brae, brat, bred, brut, bura, burd, bute, dame, darb, dare, dart, data, date, daub, daut, dear, debt, derm, drab, dram, drat, drub, drum, duet, duma, dumb, dura, dure, maar, mabe, made, mare, mart, mate, maud, maut, mead, meat, meta, mura, mure, mute, rate, read, ream, rube, rude, rued, tabu, tame, tare, team, tear, term, trad, tram, true, tuba, tube, turd, urea.

+1 letter: adumbrated, adumbrates.

+2 letters: adumbrative, masturbated.

+3 letters: perambulated.

+4 letters: adumbratively.

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