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depictive
adjective as in delineative
Weak matches
adjective as in descriptive
adjective as in representative
Example Sentences
It doesn’t aim to be as physically depictive as that work, nor as impressionistic as Debussy’s “La Mer,” to which Mr. Adams alludes in the colors of his glisteningly alluring piece.
More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music.
Who sent me the picture depictive of Isaiah xi.
Here is the picture: myself—as a schoolboy—being tied up with ropes depictive of Greek, Latin, Euclid, and other cutting and disagreeable items.
Miss Alice Corkran has shown me an illustrated coloured map, depictive of the main incidents and scenery of the Pilgrim's Progress, which he genially made for "the children."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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