reminiscent.

Bringing another thing, experience or period to mind through resemblance or association.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• reminiscent of
• reminiscent style

On the page

The passage was reminiscent of the earlier letters without reproducing their wording.

The room’s arrangement was reminiscent of a place the narrator remembered from childhood.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more reminiscent; superlative most reminiscent where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: narrative transformation, conception and possibility, memory representation, anticipatory detail. Disciplines: literary writing, advanced general English, narrative analysis. Commonness: moderately common.