allusive
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈluː.sɪv/, /əˈljuː.sɪv/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈluː.sɪv/
- Homophone: elusive
Adjective
allusive (comparative more allusive, superlative most allusive)
- that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)
- 1984, John Bayley, Two pieces on translating Mandelstam, Selected Essays, page 149,
- 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.
- 2010, James Matthews, Late Modernism and the Marketplace, Edwina Keown, Carol Taaffe (editors), Irish Modernism, page 172,
- 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.
- Synonym: suggestive
- 1984, John Bayley, Two pieces on translating Mandelstam, Selected Essays, page 149,
Derived terms
- allusively
- allusiveness
Related terms
- allude
- allusion
Translations
containing or making use of allusions
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ly.ziv/
- Homophone: allusives
Adjective
allusive
- feminine singular of allusif
Italian
Adjective
allusive
- Feminine plural of adjective allusivo.