Shadowy
['ʃædəʊɪ] or ['ʃædoi]
Definition
(adj.) lacking in substance; 'strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds'- W.A.Butler; 'dim shadowy forms'; 'a wraithlike column of smoke' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
(a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
(a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
(a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical.
(a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Shady, umbrageous, dark, obscure, dim, murky, gloomy.[2]. Unreal, unsubstantial, impalpable, visionary, imaginary, spectral, ghostly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dim, cloudy, obscure, dark, murky, gloomy, mysterious,[See JUST_and_HONEST]
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Examples
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- After a long examination I discovered what it was--the shadowy soldiers were all Germans! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Howbeit, it wore itself out in a shadowy corner, and then the dressmaker came forth, and washed her face, and made the tea. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was no shadowy picture of his footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I did not like to walk at this hour alone with Mr. Rochester in the shadowy orchard; but I could not find a reason to allege for leaving him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What he saw, meanwhile, with the help of the lamp, was the faded shadowy charm of a room unlike any room he had known. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was a shadowy unreal Ursula, a whole shadow-play of an unreal life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gradually the object of fear sank beneath the horizon, and to the last shot up shadowy beams into the otherwise radiant air. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Gerald moved in his slow, observant, glistening-attentive motion down between the tables and the people whose shadowy faces looked up as he passed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So far as theory and details of working are concerned, there are a good many people still in the same shadowy frame of mind as the old Aberdeen postmaster, of whom the story is told. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We walked through the shadowy plantation in silence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All was shadowy with coming summer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her form is transparent; every object or person beyond her being seen in shadowy but distinct outline. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Allan Woodcourt pauses to look after him and note all this, with a shadowy belief that he has seen the boy before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It dates back to the shadowy ages of tradition, and was the birthplace of gods renowned in Grecian mythology. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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