Definition of Shadowiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of shadowy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shadowiest

1. shadowy [adj] - See also: shadowy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadowiest

shadowboxed
shadowboxer
shadowboxes
shadowboxing
shadowcasting
shadowe
shadowed
shadower
shadowers
shadowes
shadowgraph
shadowgraphies
shadowgraphs
shadowgraphy
shadowier
shadowiest (current term)
shadowily
shadowiness
shadowinesses
shadowing
shadowing (histology)
shadowings
shadowish
shadowland
shadowlands
shadowless
shadowlike
shadowplay
shadowplays
shadows

Literary usage of Shadowiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... and when the classic world of Greece and Rome had only the shadowiest idea of her configuration, her inhabitants, and even her exact whereabouts. ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"... is sometimes more to be questioned than their purely artistic merit, and the connection between text and picture occasionally of the shadowiest. ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"... to insulting advances when Americans came into the neighborhood; the descent of whites upon her home on the shadowiest suspicion of lost stock; finally, ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"There was the velvet lawn, the trim flowerpots, the tall autumnal flowers, the straight and well-kept garden-paths, lying vacant aud shadowiest beneath the ..."

5. Eldorado: Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire, Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor (1884)
"As we came out of the deep-sunken valleys on the brow of a ridge facing the south, there stood, distinct and shadowiest from base to apex, the Mountain of ..."

6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"... but most of whom were accredited by, or attached to Indian nawabs, or foreign potentates of the shadowiest as well as the shadiest order. ..."

7. Seventeenth Century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry by Edmund Gosse (1897)
"... which makes this dramatist, hitherto the shadowiest figure of his time, perhaps the poet of the Restoration of whose life and character we know the moat ..."

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