different between allusive vs allude

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??lu?.s?v/, /??lju?.s?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lu?.s?v/
  • Homophone: elusive

Adjective

allusive (comparative more allusive, superlative most allusive)

1. that contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints)
   • 1984, John Bayley, Two pieces on translating Mandelstam, Selected Essays, page 149,

     English poetry is compelled by the stubbornness of the language continually to renounce the too obviously poetic: but in seeking to be more precise, more dense and more allusive, Russian poetry has never had to give up the straightforward traditional intoxications of sound and rhyme.

   • 2010, James Matthews, Late Modernism and the Marketplace, Edwina Keown, Carol Taaffe (editors), Irish Modernism, page 172,

     The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations.

   • 2013, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou (translators and editors), Introduction, Unknown author, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds, [14th c, ????????????? ???????? ??? ???? ??? ??????????], page 87,

     The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator.

   Synonym: suggestive

Derived terms

Related terms

• allude
• allusion

Translations

Anagrams

• eluvials

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly.ziv/
• Homophone: allusives

Adjective

allusive

1. feminine singular of allusif

Italian

Adjective

allusive

1. feminine plural of allusivo

English

Etymology

From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?d/

Verb

allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)

1. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

     These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Derived terms

• allusive
• allusion

Related terms

• delude
• elude
• illude

Translations

References

• allude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

See also

• hark back
• hearken back

Anagrams

• aludel

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

allude

1. third-person singular present indicative of alludere

Anagrams

• duella

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?lu?.de/, [äl??l?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/, [?l?lu?d??]

Verb

all?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of all?d?