Found 2 items, similar to shadowy.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shadowy
shadowy
adj 1: filled with shade;
“the shady side of the street”;
“the
surface of the pond is dark and shadowed”;
“we sat on
rocks in a shadowy cove”;
“cool umbrageous woodlands”
[syn:
shady,
shadowed,
umbrageous]
2: lacking clarity or distinctness;
“a dim figure in the
distance”;
“only a faint recollection”;
“shadowy figures
in the gloom”;
“saw a vague outline of a building through
the fog”;
“a few wispy memories of childhood” [syn:
dim,
faint,
vague,
wispy]
3: lacking in substance;
“strange fancies of unreal and shadowy
worlds”- W.A.Butler;
“dim shadowy forms”;
“a wraithlike
column of smoke” [syn:
wraithlike]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shadowy
Shadowy
\Shad"ow*y\, a.
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
“Shadowy verdure.” --Fenton.
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This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
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2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
“The shadowy past.”
--Longfellow.
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3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
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The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things. --Milton.
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4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
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From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
--Milton.
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5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
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Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and
Death. --Addison.
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