Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. described or represented in a lifelike manner
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of limn.
Etymologies
- limn + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think your use of the word "limned" is profound.”
“No more can Mr. George Sandys, who came to Virginia in the train of Governor Wyat, in 1621, and completed his excellent metrical translation of Ovid on the banks of the James, in the midst of the Indian massacre of 1622, "limned" as he writes "by that imperfect light which was snatched from the hours of night and repose, having wars and tumults to bring it to light instead of the muses.”
“Through months of campaigning and 18 debates, the Republican presidential candidates have limned a range of issues -- from taxation and corporate personhood to abortion and gay marriage, even open marriage.”
The Huffington Post: Annette Fuentes: Where's Education in the Republican Candidates' Slugfest?
“The film limned his fitness regime, work ethic, first marriages, and the tragic overdose of his daughter Catya.”
The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Vidal Sassoon: The Movie on a Bad Hair Night
“I am grateful for the compliment," she said; and in those long gray eyes of hers were limned and coloured all the satisfaction, and self-certitude and answering complacency of power that constitute so large a part of the seductive mystery and mastery that is possessed by woman.”
“And at the same time, on my inner sight, was grotesquely limned a picture of a brain pulsing savagely against the veneer of skin that covered that cleft of skull beneath the dripping sou'-wester.”
“Ultimately, this Eden is a limbo, from which Jess has to navigate her way to childhood's end, its visual poetry limned in melancholy and anticipation.”
“Tony adored the kooky, folk-art Cupid, with a slightly bent bow and arrow, limned in a zigzag, concentric red-and-black series of hearts.”
The Washington Post: One last Valentine's Day at Tony's Place
“And then we've got the characters, who are well-limned and interesting.”
“Here's a guy the liberal blogosphere limned as a hero, and he got his clock cleaned.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘limned’.
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graphism
of or related to drawing—forms, tools, techniques, processes, practices, etc.
limn, vectorial, limned, synecdoche, adumbrate, lapis, colophon, grapheme, isogloss, sciagraphy, palimpsest, homunculus and 18 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Word of Infinite Jest
quincunx, plosivity, prolix, aleatory, diagnate, appetitive, experialist, candidiatic, chapeau, perfidiously, antitheory, décolletage and 150 more...
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deliciously descriptive
words I use in my writing to paint pictures.
grey, cinnamon, pale, filigree, wistful, embrace, affection, spatter, glisten, sated, shiver, graceful and 26 more...
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zoesque's Words
avail, dissuade, delineate, chaparral, insinuate, tain, hubris, conglomerate, still, palely, loiter, whatevs and 68 more...
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TAAKC
Chabon words
contrivance, fokker, selvage, indolence, prestidigitated, omniveillant, penury, misapprehension, lachrymose, redoubt, acromegaly, divan and 84 more...
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onetree's Words
surreptitious, hokey, singular, stunning, bit, loquacious, poinky, gobbets, dither, crochet, gross, hinkey and 53 more...
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fahye's Words
cadence, solipsism, aesthete, elegance, palindrome, sibilant, divigation, zenith, maelstrom, illogic, gestalt, tangle and 46 more...
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Leap of Malta Dolphins
interesting words from Francis Ebejer's novel
pungently, chortle, rent, limned, wraith, shawl, raucous, paean
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