Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
characterized by indirect references;
- Example: "allusive speech is characterized by allusions"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Allusive \Al*lu"sive\, a.
1. Figurative; symbolical.
[1913 Webster]
2. Having reference to something not fully expressed;
containing an allusion.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
allusive
adj 1: characterized by indirect references; "allusive speech is
characterized by allusions"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "allusive":
allusory, figurative, figured, flowery, implicational, implicative,
implicatory, indicative, inferential, insinuating, insinuative,
insinuatory, ironic, mannered, metaphorical, ornamented,
referential, suggestive, trolatitious, tropological