Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shadowy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shadowy \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 shadowy 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shadowy
adj 1: 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}, {umbrageous}]
2: 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}, {vague}, {wispy}]
3: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy
worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike
column of smoke" [syn: {wraithlike}]
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