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pointillistic

pointillistic adjective: having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.

Adjective

pointillistic (comparative more pointillistic, superlative most pointillistic)

  1. Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.
    • a pointillistic work of art
  2. (broadly) Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism.
    • Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying...2008 December 12, Jon Pareles, “Hey, Kids! Care for a Little Minimalism With Your Dance Grooves?”, in The New York Times

Synonyms of pointillistic

Forms of pointillistic

comparativemore pointillistic
superlativemost pointillistic

Origin of pointillistic

From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.

Words formed from pointillistic

Questions about pointillistic

What does pointillistic mean?
Pointillistic means having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.
What part of speech is pointillistic?
Pointillistic is an adjective.

Words near pointillistic in the dictionary

  1. pointillism
  2. pointillisms
  3. pointillist
  4. pointilliste
  5. pointillistes
  6. pointillistic
  7. pointillistically
  8. pointillists
  9. pointillé
  10. pointillés
  11. pointily

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