shadowy
shadowy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- behind
- blind
- blush
- born
- conceal
- concealed
- concealment
- covered
- covert
- curtain
- dark
- delitescence
- delitescent
- dim
- eclipse
- escape
- faint
- flower
- focus
- full
- fuzzy
- hidden
- hide
- ill
- imperceptibility
- imperceptible
- inconspicuous
- indefinite
- indiscernible
- indistinct
- indistinctness
- indistinguishable
- invisibility
- invisible
- invisibleness
- latency
- latent
- lie
- lose
- lurk
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is shadowy.
- What is hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow called?
- What is not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton called?
- What is faintly representative; hence, typical. From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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