'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
- air-built,
- airy,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bodiless,
- bosky,
- bowery,
- broad,
- cadaverous,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- chimerical,
- clear as mud,
- cloud-built,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- corpselike,
- dark,
- darkling,
- deathlike,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- dim,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- disordered,
- dreamlike,
- dusky,
- ectoplasmic,
- ethereal,
- etheric,
- extramundane,
- faint,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fleeting,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- general,
- ghostish,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- ghosty,
- gloomy,
- gossamery,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hallucinatory,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- lax,
- leafy,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- merely glimpsed,
- misty,
- muddy,
- murky,
- nebulous,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonspecific,
- notional,
- obscure,
- obumbrate,
- obumbrated,
- occult,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- otherworldly,
- out of focus,
- overshaded,
- overshadowed,
- pale,
- penumbral,
- phantasmal,
- phantasmic,
- phantom,
- phantomic,
- phantomlike,
- psychic,
- random,
- rarefied,
- semivisible,
- shaded,
- shadow,
- shadowed forth,
- shady,
- shapeless,
- specterlike,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- spirituous,
- stochastic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supernatural,
- sweeping,
- tenuous,
- transcendent,
- transitory,
- transmundane,
- umbral,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unphysical,
- unplain,
- unreal,
- unrecognizable,
- unspecified,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- veiled,
- visionary,
- weak,
- windy,
- wraithlike,
- wraithy