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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb allude which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

allusive
  1. That contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. suggestive, indicative, evocative, connotative, oblique, referential, implied, indirect, inferred, symbolic, redolent, representative, demonstrative, denotative, evocatory, revealing, reminiscent, remindful, expressive, characteristic, denotive, telltale, symptomatic, evincive, insinuative, telling, implicative, meaning, intriguing, significative, emblematic, pointing to, meaningful, denoting, indicatory, significant, resonant, mnemonic, eloquent, evidential, prognostic, indicial, revelatory, pregnant, giving an inkling, typical, figurative, recalling, illustrative, allegorical … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Chopin's Preludes return independence to the hands in order to display a new kind of allusive dialogue between them.”
      “He enjoyed adorning his Latin poems with words and phrases that are sometimes ornamental in function, sometimes more meaningfully allusive.”
      “Her allusive serial art makes use of pairings, sequences and minutes compositional shifts.”
allusory
  1. allusive; making allusion
  2. Examples:
      3. “Instead, meaning inheres in the surface of an ever-changing web of signs, making all language acts essentially provisional and allusory.”
      “The sermons moving, allusory, and intricately reasoned led to L'Engle's second career, as a public speaker, which often took her away from home.”
      “All these songs are well-crafted, sometimes allusory, and they were performed with devoted dedication.”
alluded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of allude
  2. Synonyms:
      3. made, implied, indicated, inferred, insinuated, intimated, proposed, prove, proved, suggested, hinted at, pointed at, pointed in direction of, pointed out, pointed to, pointed toward, signified, led to believe, hinted, mentioned, referred, cited, pointed, introduced, adverted, mentioned in passing, made allusion, made an allusion to, referred to, talked about, referred in passing, adverted to, made a passing reference, touched on, brought up, made reference, mentioned en passant, proven, spoken briefly of, spoke briefly of, drew inference, drawn inference, showed, demonstrated, revealed, evinced, signalled, signaled, evidenced, reflected … more
alluding
  1. present participle of allude
  2. Synonyms:
      3. suggesting, implying, insinuating, hinting, intimating, inferring, indicating, mentioning, referring, signifying, citing, pointing, introducing, adverting, hinting at, referring to, touching on, bringing up, talking about, adverting to, making allusion, making reference, mentioning in passing, mentioning en passant, referring in passing, speaking briefly of, making an allusion to, making a passing reference, connoting, signaling, signalling, driving at, giving an inkling, alluding to, giving a clue, getting at, alluding to the fact, giving someone to understand, leaking, tipping off, giving someone to believe, pointing to, broaching, pointing toward, purporting, imputing, denoting, ascribing, conveying the impression, making out … more
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