nonallusive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not allusive; making no allusions; straightforward.
Example Sentences
- "The Golden Notebook has been criticized for discussing the inadequacy of language in adequate language, for "talk[ing] about disorder in a very orderly way—in an accessible style, and a determinedly everyday vocabulary, one usually nonallusive, even pedestrian.""
- "Some references to the rising of the sun or moon appear simply to signal a new day or night, and some of these nonallusive references have been omitted from the following list (though, too, some of the references that have been included may indeed be nonallusive in the final analysis) ."
- "According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more nonallusive (comparative)
most nonallusive (superlative)