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subtext
[ suhb-tekst ]
noun
- the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.
subtext
/ ˈʌˌɛ /
noun
- an underlying theme in a piece of writing
- a message which is not stated directly but can be inferred
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ٱt· adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
“I think it's a musing about when violence would be justified with a kind of subtext critical of the administration.”
As O’Toole also observes, Trump’s anti-European animus has a potent psychosexual subtext, simultaneously rooted in right-wing American macho posturing and his own infantile sense of narcissistic injury.
It went well enough, I suppose — if your standards are low and you’re willing to ignore the complicated and sometimes painful subtext.
Like that movie about a girl who befriends a super pig being hunted by meat industry overlords — along with almost all of his other work — Bong is completely uninterested in the concept of subtext.
I shouldn’t read subtext into a cameo Hackman knocked out in two days.
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