shadowy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shadowy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for shadowy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shadowy adj 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" Synonym(s): shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous 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" Synonym(s): dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" Synonym(s): shadowy, wraithlike
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shadowy \Shad"owy\, a. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. [bd]Shadowy* verdure.[b8] --Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. [bd]The shadowy past.[b8] --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.