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Definition of Shadowy

1. Adjective. Filled with shade. "Cool umbrageous woodlands"

2. Adjective. Lacking clarity or distinctness. "A few wispy memories of childhood"

3. Adjective. Lacking in substance. "A wraithlike column of smoke"

Definition of Shadowy

1. a. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Definition of Shadowy

1. Adjective. In shadow; darkened by shadows. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of character) Dark, obscure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shadowy

1. dark [adj -OWIER, -OWIEST] - See also: dark

Medical Definition of Shadowy

1. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." "This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods." (Shak) 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." 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: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadowy

shadowiest shadowily shadowiness shadowinesses shadowing shadowing (histology) shadowings shadowish shadowland shadowlands

shadowless shadowlike shadowplay shadowplays shadows shadowy (current term) shadrach shadrachs shads shaduf

shadufs shady shaffle shaffled shaffles shaffling shaffron shaffrons shafranovskite

Literary usage of Shadowy

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

1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"The Cathedral was in ashes, Priests all slain or fled, shadowy ... these shadowy Deputies of the Wittekind breed having vanished in that manner. ..."

2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Take one instance, .omitting others; which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us to a new set very slightly more ..."

3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Take one instance, omitting others ; which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us-to a new set very slightly more ..."

4. History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Take one instance, omitting others, which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us to a new set very slightly more ..."

5. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"True. as substantial as a bed are shadowy objects wh Should you like us to employ these ... shadowy ..."

6. History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"Take one instance, omitting others, which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us to a new set very slightly more ..."

7. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... As if the mental eye gained power to gaze Beyond the limits of the existing; world. Such hours of shadowy dreams 1 better love Than all the ..."

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