adumbrate
Verb
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; “sketch the outline of the book”; “outline his ideas”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- More specific
- Related
- outline
- synopsis
- abstract
- precis
- sketch
- survey
- resume
- sketch
- vignette
- give to understand; “I insinuated that I did not like his wife”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- insinuation
- innuendo
- inkling
- intimation
- glimmering
- glimmer
- Formal report or represent in outline
they have adumbrated the importance of education as a means of social transformation
indicate faintly
the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light
foreshadow or symbolize
what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine?
overshadow
her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else
Origin
late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’)