silhouetted
silhouetted is the simple past and past participle of silhouette.
Meaning of silhouette
Verb
silhouette (third-person singular simple present silhouettes, present participle silhouetting, simple past and past participle silhouetted)
- Often followed by against or upon: to depict (oneself or someone, or something) as a silhouette (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2.1); to project (oneself or someone, or something) upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
- We guided ourselves, by the fitful flashes of forked and sheet lightning combined, towards a ghostly point, whose deeper blackness silhouetted it against the shades.1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “To Sánga-Tánga and Back”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston...
- To appear as a silhouette.
- [T]he distant islands […] lay dark and massive across our path, their huge crowns silhouetting in clear-cut outlines against the eastern sky, […]1884 June, “The North Shore”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXIX, number CCCCIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 110, column 2
Forms of silhouetted
| comparative | more silhouetted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most silhouetted |
Words formed from silhouetted
Questions about silhouetted
- What is silhouetted the simple past and past participle of?
- Silhouetted is the simple past and past participle of silhouette.
Words near silhouetted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: silhouetted (page history and authors); silhouette (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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