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adjective

Shadowy adj.

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

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

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

Faintly representative; hence, typical. "From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit."

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."

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Etymology of 'Shadowy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shadowy" Quotes from Famous Books

... round of weary duties, cold and formal, came to meet her, With the life within departed that had given them each a soul; And her sick heart even slighted gentle words that came to greet her, For grief spread its shadowy pinions like a blight upon the whole. A. ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... character, and he did not want to take any risk of jeopardizing his chance of meeting Mary again. And no other subject of conversation occurred to him. He did not know Jeekes at all well, knew him in fact only as a week-end guest knows the private secretary of his host, a shadowy personality, indispensable and part of the household, but scarcely more ...

— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine

... dispatch. In the mean time I skipped about from boulder to boulder as the fish worked this way or that about the pool, peering into the water to catch a glimpse of him, for he had begun to yield a little to the steady strain that was kept upon him. Presently I saw a shadowy, unsubstantial something just emerge from the black depths, then vanish. Then I saw it again, and this time the huge proportions of the fish were faintly outlined by the white facings of his fins. The sketch lasted but a twinkling; ...

— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs

... growing into a roar, and rockets were flecking the clouds with their green, red, and blue lights. Shadowy figures began to show in the darkness, and a group was seen ahead, in the street ...

— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson

... scion of the race indulge a prideful retrospect of his sometime grandeur, and pristine might; that has power to invoke stirring recollections of a momentous and a thrilling past; to re-animate and summon before him the shadowy figures of his redoubtable sires, and re-enact their lofty deeds: in view of which, there is wafted to him a breath, laden with moving memories of that glorious age, when aught but pre-eminence was foreign to his ...

— A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians • James Bovell Mackenzie

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