SHADOWY

shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous

(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”

shadowy, wraithlike

(adjective) lacking in substance; “strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds”- W.A.Butler; “dim shadowy forms”; “a wraithlike column of smoke”

dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

shadowy (comparative shadowier, superlative shadowiest)

In shadow; darkened by shadows.

(of character) Dark, obscure.

(rare, dated) Indulging in fancies; daydreaming.

Anagrams

• show day

Source: Wiktionary

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Shad"ow*y, a.

1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.

2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow.

3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton.

4. Faintly representative; hence, typical. From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton.

5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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