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Definition
describe or reveal incompletely — as when outlining major points, or when sharing information guardedlyLess commonly, adumbrate can mean to foreshadow, or obscure (make harder to see or understand).
- She expounded on the view previously adumbrated.
- She adumbrated the idea only in a single footnote.
- Leon Guggenhammer was young and fat. Not a day more than thirty, his face, save for the adumbrated puff sacks under the eyes, was as smooth and lineless as a boy's.Jack London -- Burning Daylight
- The system of relations established in the Middle Ages between philosophy and theology was adumbrated in the early Middle Ages and completed in the thirteenth century.
- The system of relations established in the Middle Ages between philosophy and theology was adumbrated in the early Middle Ages and completed in the thirteenth century.