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adumbrant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ad-um-brant
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

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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Usage

Inflected Forms

more adumbrant (comparative) most adumbrant (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

adumbrance adumbrate

Questions

What does adumbrant mean?
Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
Where does adumbrant come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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