Adumbration — meaning in English
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English meaning
- adumbration noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
Senses
Adumbration is used for these senses in English:
- adumbration (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
adumbration — full definition
- noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
- noun A rough drawing or short description that gives only the basic shape of something.
- noun (heraldry) The showing of a design only as an outline, sometimes shaded a darker color than the background.
- noun A rough or symbolic picture of something, or an early, unclear sign of what is to come.
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