intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
(verb) give to understand; “I insinuated that I did not like his wife”
sketch, outline, adumbrate
(verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; “sketch the outline of the book”; “outline his ideas”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adumbrate (third-person singular simple present adumbrates, present participle adumbrating, simple past and past participle adumbrated)
To foreshadow vaguely.
To give a vague outline.
To obscure or overshadow.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*um"brate, v. t. Etym: [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]
1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.
2. To overshadow; to shade.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 February 2025
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
