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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)

  1. (reflexive, transitive, often passive voice) 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...
  2. (intransitive) 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

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Forms of silhouetted

comparativemore silhouetted
superlativemost 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

  1. Silhillian
  2. Silhillians
  3. silhouet
  4. silhouets
  5. silhouette
  6. silhouetted
  7. silhouettes
  8. silhouetting
  9. silhouettist
  10. silhouettists
  11. silhouettograph

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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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