Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text.
- n. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- sub- + text (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I read that as a clear statement that she still holds to her transphobic views – and the subtext is as obnoxious as it is heavy-handed and unoriginal.”
“No, no, Andy, the subtext is the moral ambiguity of the right who shut down social programs to feed the poor while sanctioning school children to pray for them.”
“This subtext is also interesting considering how Barry's later opera, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, raises these issues again when dealing with the subject matter of Fassbinder's film and its all female cast.”
“The hilarious subtext is that the pirate ship is home to a cast of homosexual men (including denizens such as Peter Poop who has a wine-cork for a nose).”
“The latter, in subtext, read; ` Police officers did everything possible to prevent the death of Kevin Kenna at his home … … .. ` but this was actually a quote from the IPCC.”
“I don't watch Supernatural so I don't know if the subtext is intentional or not.”
“By the way, what master of subtext is picking Bristol's musical selections?”
“As they discuss paint-color choices, the subtext is clear.”
“Â Submerged in subtext, The White Ribbon is a fantastic film that offers no easy answers and a future both inescapable and inexplicable.”
“Sure, fine, but when the subtext is written in red neon, it's kind of beside the point.”
The Huffington Post: Stefan Beck: Must Be Jelly: Yeaworth's The Blob
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘subtext’.
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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horizon, echo, undulation, resonance, reflection, acoustic, swoosh, distant, glide, interspace, marbles, radiant and 144 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Words to remember
adventive, affectation, ambiguous, anachronism, anesis, antithetic, apostasy, attenuate, authenticity, autodidact, -fic, bandolier and 146 more...
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Hannibal
punic, ba'al, toffit, molech, cognate, moabite, pathogen, apologist, legate, shoals, immolate, emnity and 41 more...
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GRE Words 2
veritable, sycophant, stratagem, verdant, capitulate, umlaut, veto, pertain, vernacular, recede, remittance, disparage and 47 more...
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Odd Words
Miscellaneous words that deserve some kind of recognition.
airy, conjunctive, indicative, disjunctive, subjunctive, seraph, seraphim, serif, sans, theta, sigma, delta and 61 more...
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artfuldodger's Words
artful, chaos, ravishing, salacious, subtext, octave, sestet
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