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allusive

/uh-loo-siv/US // əˈlu sɪv //UK // (əˈluːsɪv) //

暗示性的,暗示性,寓意深刻,寓意深刻的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
    • : Obsolete. metaphorical; symbolic; figurative.

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Examples

  • The term is appropriately open-ended, since the participants devise pieces that are minimalist and mysteriously allusive.

  • This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive.

  • The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive.

  • He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive.

  • Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.

  • Of course, they are not ready for the indirect and allusive manner, nor for the lyric egoism, of the pure literary essay.

  • Of course letters enable you to evade some of the difficulties of the novelist's task, to be discursive, allusive and incomplete.