Definitions for allusive

allusive al·lu·sive

Spelling: [uh-loo-siv]
IPA: /əˈlu sɪv/

Allusive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in allusive (aeillsuv).

Definitions for allusive

adjective

  1. having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
  2. Obsolete. metaphorical; symbolic; figurative.

Origin of allusive

First recorded in 1595-1605; allus(ion) + -ive

Examples for allusive

My indictment will be short, as some of the parties is not present to which you have been allusive.

Henry James, Senior, dealt with such things in the most allusive and paradoxical terms.

It is indeed an allusive title, carrying the world back to the Wilhelm Meister of Goethe, a century and a half earlier.

When Austin explained Viviette's meaning to his mother, who had not an allusive habit of mind, she acquiesced placidly.

He loved to come at the truth of things by allusive, far-off reflections, rather than by the sharp questioning of the witness-box.

Some, as Austria, instead of one Eagle, adopt two as their allusive emblazonry.

The old sacred name Yahweh is never pronounced; even “God” is avoided for allusive titles like “heaven” or “place.”

It was allusive only, but knowing the dialect, Pierston and Marcia gathered its import easily.

This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive.

They both signify the same thing; both are allusive to a purification of life.

Word Value for allusive
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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