Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

adumbrated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: ad-um-brat-ed
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of adumbrate

adj

adj

adj

Depicted 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.)

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

more adumbrated (comparative) most adumbrated (superlative)

Derived Forms

unadumbrated

Frequently Paired Words

adumbration umbrated shadowed

Questions

What does adumbrated mean?: simple past and past participle of adumbrate

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