shadowy

[shad·ow·y]

The adjective shadowy is good for describing things that are mysterious or hard to see, like a dim figure in the fog or the social rules of a typical middle school.

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Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"

Adjective S.
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"

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Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

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Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.

a.
Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

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Faintly representative; hence, typical.

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Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.

Shadowy

Shad"ow*y , a. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton.

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.

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.

4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.

From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.

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.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

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Usage Examples

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.