Definition 1: To sketch a faint shadow of something; to suggest, intimate, or insinuate.
[@more@]Usage 1: The adjective is "adumbrative" [æ-'dêm-brê-tiv] and the noun, "adumbration."
Definition 2: To overshadow.
Usage 2: This meaning is rarely used today: "His good qualities are adumbrated by his bad traits."
Suggested usage: Use this word when you need a verb even paler than "suggest," "April never so much as adumbrated her affection for Sinclair before announcing their engagement." Do not forget that its original meaning has to do with sketching, "Rafe made an adumbrative gesture suggesting he was dying of boredom, so I rescued him from his conversation with Penelope."
Etymology: Latin adumbrat-, past participle of adumbrare "to represent in outline," from ad "to, toward" + umbra "shadow, shade." Latin "ad" is akin to English "at" and the mother of French "à," Italian and Spanish "a." Latin "umbra," used in English to refer to the darkest spot on something, underlies "umbrella," and "umbrage." (Today's word was adumbrated to us by both Ben St. John and Richmond, Austrailia's most articulate psychologist, Peter McCrossin.)
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