'Shadowy' definitions:

Definition of 'shadowy'

From: WordNet
adjective
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, shadowy, umbrageous]
adjective
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, shadowy, vague, wispy]
adjective
Lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" [syn: shadowy, wraithlike]

Definition of 'Shadowy'

From: GCIDE
  • Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a.
  • 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." --Fenton. [1913 Webster]
  • This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. [1913 Webster]
  • The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Faintly representative; hence, typical. [1913 Webster]
  • From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. [1913 Webster]
  • Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'shadowy'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Shadowy'