Reminiscent
[remɪ'nɪs(ə)nt] or [,rɛmɪ'nɪsnt]
Definition
(a.) Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something.
(n.) One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
Typed by Edmund
Examples
- All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One need not wonder at Edison's reminiscent remark that, In any trade any of my 'boys' made with Bergmann he always got the best of them, no matter what it was. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the court of the Tuileries, said Mr. Sillerton Jackson with his reminiscent smile, such things were pretty openly tolerated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In the psychology of the present day there is much that is reminiscent of the biological psychology of Aristotle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And the most fatal of all, she had the reminiscent sentimental compassion for herself in connection with him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her lips broke into a reminiscent smile. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typed by Edmund