adumbrative

• I liked the interview because of exchanges like the one below-but am posting it mostly because I dig it very much when an Indian writer is introduced thusly: "X who has very dark hair and adumbrative eyes yet seems to emit brightness …" (The picture is interesting too, presenting PM as a cross between a character actor in a Hindi film poster and a psychedelic hippie on the Buddha trail.) —  Amitava Kumar
• Like the somber Hawthorne's, his style is brooding, adumbrative, rather than incisive or brilliant, and it often limps among the facts of his story like a man in pain. —  Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
• 'Bob Monopoly, the late Tallyman [adumbrative for Walpole, late Prime Minister], was much blamed on this account; and —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14
• We claim to stand there, as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much. —  The French Revolution
• "suggestive and adumbrative manner" -- not, indeed, he acknowledges, a romantic manner, and yet "quite distinct from the classical"; i.e., because of the transcendental character of a portion of his poetry. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms