Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind.
- Remembering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That serves to
remind one of something;reminiscent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to bring to mind
Etymologies
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Examples
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At his Politics and Eggs speech, Mr. Perry noted that the "live free or die" state was sure "remindful of a little place down in Texas called the Alamo," using a real word - "remindful" - that sounded an awful lot like one of the malaproprisms that sometimes peppered Mr. Bush's remarks.
NYT > Home Page By ASHLEY PARKER 2011
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Although I wrote the book for teen readers, and perhaps even a bit younger, grown-ups also seem to be drawn to its colorful nostalgia, perhaps as remindful of times in their own childhood when things were less complicated and magic was real.
Alexandra Holzer: Dark Horse Comics and Imprint Sequential Pulps Writer Teams Up With Artist Tim Burgard for New Tarzan Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Although I wrote the book for teen readers, and perhaps even a bit younger, grown-ups also seem to be drawn to its colorful nostalgia, perhaps as remindful of times in their own childhood when things were less complicated and magic was real.
Alexandra Holzer: Dark Horse Comics and Imprint Sequential Pulps Writer Teams Up With Artist Tim Burgard for New Tarzan Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Some of the throws were remindful that his most voluble critics had labeled him McChoke and McDontovan.
Donovan McNabb makes a strong statement in his return to Philadelphia Sally Jenkins 2010
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But the second installation that spurts bright paint blobs from ceiling to floor is too resonant of Damien Hirst's too-cute "spin" paintings, and the scratched color photographs of gorgeous skies are too faintly remindful of Mr. Hodges's early, startling curtains.
Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay Peter Plagens 2011
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Although I wrote the book for teen readers, and perhaps even a bit younger, grown-ups also seem to be drawn to its colorful nostalgia, perhaps as remindful of times in their own childhood when things were less complicated and magic was real.
Alexandra Holzer: Dark Horse Comics and Imprint Sequential Pulps Writer Teams Up With Artist Tim Burgard for New Tarzan Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Lee Bontecou/FreedmanArt, New York Lee Bontecou's 'Untitled' 2004-11 One of the wonderful thrills for an art critic is to see knockout art made in a mode remindful of things he doesn't like.
Abstract (Semi) and Phantasmagorical Peter Plagens 2011
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While Kenning will recover from his attack, it should be remindful of all researchers, hikers and campers to be aware that they are in nature and that even in a tent danger can lurk.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Kohl-Welles claim on Postman's blog of not knowing what was going on is remindful of Ashlee Simpson blowing her spot on "Saturday Night Live" and blaming her band.
Sound Politics: Election reform proposals, with LBJ and Stalin smiling on 2007
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To bring the viewer back from the far distance, he leaves remindful little patches of canvas untouched by paint.
A World Of Apples 2008
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