What does "shadowy" mean?
Shadowy: Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow.
Additional senses
- 2.Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton.
- 3.Faintly representative; hence, typical. From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton.
- 4.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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