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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. filled with shade;
- Example: "the shady side of the street"
- Example: "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"
- Example: "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"
- Example: "cool umbrageous woodlands"
[syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]

2. lacking clarity or distinctness;
- Example: "a dim figure in the distance"
- Example: "only a faint recollection"
- Example: "shadowy figures in the gloom"
- Example: "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"
- Example: "a few wispy memories of childhood"
[syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]

3. lacking in substance;
- Example: "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler
- Example: "dim shadowy forms"
- Example: "a wraithlike column of smoke"
[syn: shadowy, wraithlike]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a.
   1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
      "Shadowy verdure." --Fenton.
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            This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
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   2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past."
      --Longfellow.
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   3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
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            The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
            Shadowy sets off the face things.     --Milton.
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   4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
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            From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
                                                  --Milton.
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   5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
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            Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
            shadowy
            and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and
            Death.                                --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shadowy
    adj 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"
           [syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]
    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" [syn: dim,
       faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]
    3: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy
       worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike
       column of smoke" [syn: shadowy, wraithlike]