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shadowy
adj. covered in shadow, protected from light; obscure, indistinct; resembling a shadow; casting a shadow, protecting from light


WordNet 2.0 DictionaryDownload this dictionary
shadowy
Adjective
1. 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) shady, shadowed, umbrageous
(similar) shaded
2. 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) dim, faint, vague, wispy
(similar) indistinct
3. lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
(synonym) wraithlike
(similar) insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Shadowy
(a.)
Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
  
 
(a.)
Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
  
 
(a.)
Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
  
 
(a.)
Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
  
 
(a.)
Faintly representative; hence, typical.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About

excellence English-Urdu DictionaryDownload this dictionary
shadowy
adj.
1. full of shade
سايہ دار, چھاں والا,
2. dark
تاريک, تيرہ, اندھيرا
3. typical
تمثيلي
4. unreal
نقلي, جھوٹا, غير مادي, بے اصل, (بے حقيقت

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shadowy
Synonyms and related words:
air-built, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, asomatous, astral, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, bodiless, bosky, bowery, broad, cadaverous, chance, chancy, chaotic, chimerical, clear as mud, cloud-built, cloudy, confused, corpselike, dark, darkling, deathlike, decarnate, decarnated, dim, discarnate, disembodied, disordered, dreamlike, dusky, ectoplasmic, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, faint, fancied, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, filmy, fleeting, foggy, fuzzy, gaseous, general, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, gloomy, gossamery, half-seen, half-visible, hallucinatory, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, incorporate, incorporeal, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, insubstantial, intangible, lax, leafy, loose, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonspecific, notional, obscure, obumbrate, obumbrated, occult, opaque, orderless, otherworldly, out of focus, overshaded, overshadowed, pale, penumbral, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, psychic, random, rarefied, semivisible, shaded, shadow, shadowed forth, shady, shapeless, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, spirituous, stochastic, subtile, subtle, supernatural, sweeping, tenuous, transcendent, transitory, transmundane, umbral, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unplain, unreal, unrecognizable, unspecified, unsubstantial, unworldly, vague, vaporous, veiled, visionary, weak, windy, wraithlike, wraithy
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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