Allusive vs Allude - What's the difference?
allusive | allude | Related terms |
Containing or making use of indirect references or hints.
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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Allude is a related term of allusive.
Allusive is a derived term of allude.
As a adjective allusive
is containing or making use of indirect references or hints.As a verb allude is
to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.allusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His speech was allusive .
Derived terms
* allusively * allusivenessallude
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Verb
(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
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- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}