allusive
/əˈluː.sɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "English poetry is compelled by the stubbornness of the language continually to renounce the too obviously poetic: but in seeking to be more precise, more dense and more allusive, Russian poetry has never had to give up the straightforward traditional intoxications of sound and rhyme."
- "The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations."
- "2013, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou (translators and editors), Introduction, Unknown author, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds, [14th c, Παιδιόφραστος διήγησις τῶν ζῴων τῶν τετραπόδων], page 87, The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator."
- "Around they go, taking in the poem's allusive system of images and its narrative density, the emotional heat of its subject matter, its increasing cultural salience re: women, re: trauma, re: bodies, re: life at the end of the world."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈluː.sɪv/
- British English: /əˈluː.sɪv/
Inflected Forms
more allusive (comparative)
most allusive (superlative)