Shady
['ʃeɪdɪ] or ['ʃedi]
Definition
(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' .
Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
(superl.) Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Shadowy, umbrageous.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All there was sunny and quiet externally, and shady and quiet internally. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One or other of those shady Englishmen to whom I have alluded, would get them the copy you have described. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Hancock's corps pushed toward Totopotomoy Creek; Warren's corps to the left on the Shady Grove Church Road, while Burnside was held in reserve. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Select a dry, shady spot; dig a ditch for carrying off the waste water, and over it place a lath-work. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Warren moved up near Huntley Corners on the Shady Grove Church Road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I just will, though, for it's capital, so shady, light, and big. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hancock was to move south-westward to join on the left of Warren, his left to reach to Shady Grove Church. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment at the Bank, on the shadier side of the frying street. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In the deepest, shadiest spot in the glen, where the water runs low, under brushwood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We will go home through the wood: that will be the shadiest way. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Lyman