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nonallusive

nonallusive adjective: not allusive; making no allusions; straightforward.

Adjective

nonallusive (comparative more nonallusive, superlative most nonallusive)

  1. Not allusive; making no allusions; straightforward.
    • The Golden Notebook has been criticized for discussing the inadequacy of language in adequate language, for "talk[ing] about disorder in a very orderly way—in an accessible style, and a determinedly everyday vocabulary, one usually nonallusive, even pedestrian."1994, Gayle Greene, Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change, page 117
    • Some references to the rising of the sun or moon appear simply to signal a new day or night, and some of these nonallusive references have been omitted from the following list (though, too, some of the references that have been included may indeed be nonallusive in the final analysis) .2013, John Sepich, Notes on Blood Meridian

Forms of nonallusive

comparativemore nonallusive
superlativemost nonallusive

Origin of nonallusive

From non- + allusive.

Questions about nonallusive

What does nonallusive mean?
Nonallusive means not allusive; making no allusions; straightforward.
What part of speech is nonallusive?
Nonallusive is an adjective.

Words near nonallusive in the dictionary

  1. nonallowable
  2. nonallowed
  3. nonalloy
  4. nonalloyed
  5. nonalluring
  6. nonallusive
  7. nonalluvial
  8. nonally
  9. nonalogue
  10. nonalone
  11. nonaloof

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