Thesaurus results for ALLUSIVE

allusive

adjective

Definition of allusive

as in referring

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Recent Examples of allusive Where An Orange Colored Day was gestural and allusive, A Rush to Nowhere is direct. — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2026 Yarvin tends to extreme digression, while Land speaks with the allusive compression of a guru. — James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026 David Bowie, charming in interviews, and leaning toward the abstract and allusive in his lyrics, was not given to weighing in on news events. — Alexander Larman, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026 At times sparse and allusive, Moon’s poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd. — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for allusive

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Adjective

The worker is indicative of a growing trend of people who are employed yet unable to feed their families in this tough economic environment.

— Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
And their yearlong success is indicative of why baseball is bigger than its big-name franchises.

— Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of indicative

Adjective

While reminiscing during the July reunion, a reflective Epstein described feeling liberated after the Cubs returned from Cleveland with the World Series trophy in hand.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
The experiment described, which intentionally seeks to elicit a particular response, is not representative of how most voters use ChatGPT or reflective of their experience.

— Katie McQue, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of reflective

Adjective

Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away.

— Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022
The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type.

— SPIN, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022

Definition of denotative

Adjective

Because each frequency state leaves a telltale signature, the system immediately recognizes which channel the qubit is resting on.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
From the outside the telltale sign that anything is happening is the ambient trail of music.

— Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of telltale

Adjective

Fashion lost Mackie back in September, and the late designer—known for his impeccable, expressive glitz—was responsible for dressing everyone from Cher to Carol Burnett.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026
The director Pam MacKinnon even has cast the perfect lead actress as that mom in the richly expressive Katrina Lenk.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of expressive

Adjective

The software does a decent job of automatically recognizing the edges of the paper, cropping or tilting pages when necessary, and flattening the curves characteristic of facing pages in bound books.

— David English, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
The ad is characteristic of the increasingly dark tone Hilton’s campaign has taken on in the home stretch.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of characteristic

Adjective

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) declined the most, down 7%, a tumble symptomatic of soft demand in the UK and France, despite some resilience in Germany.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026
But this approach provides only symptomatic relief to the overarching and insoluble crisis produced by his totalitarianism.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

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