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Shadowy   /ʃˈædoʊi/   Listen
Shadowy

adjective
1.
Filled with shade.  Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous.  "The surface of the pond is dark and shadowed" , "We sat on rocks in a shadowy cove" , "Cool umbrageous woodlands"
2.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.  Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy.  "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"
3.
Lacking in substance.  Synonym: wraithlike.  "Dim shadowy forms" , "A wraithlike column of smoke"






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"Shadowy" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the midnight the cedars were sleeping, Their shadowy tresses outlined in the bright Crystal, moon-smitten mists, where the fountain's heart, leaping Forever, forever burst, full with delight; And its lisp on my spirit Fell faint as that near it Whose love like a lily bloomed ...
— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley

... city. Upon one of the terraces of the mountain stood a massive house of unhewn granite, a house representing no particular style of architecture, but whose deep bay-windows, broad, winding verandas, and shadowy, secluded balconies all combined to present an aspect most inviting. To Darrell the place had an irresistible charm; he gazed at it as though fascinated, unable to take his eyes ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour

... a lovely sight greeted our enchanted eyes as we stopped for a few moments on the summit of the hill leading into Rich Bar! Deep in the shadowy nooks of the far-down valleys, like wasted jewels dropped from the radiant sky above, lay half a dozen blue-bosomed lagoons, glittering and gleaming and sparkling in the sunlight as though each tiny wavelet were formed ...
— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

... silver ere he can redeem his family from destruction; the storm is only stilled by Jonah's being cast out into the deep; Samson triumphs over the enemy by the sacrifice of his own life! All these historical facts seem to me as types, dim and shadowy indeed, yet legible to the eye of faith, and Sacrifice is the ...
— Hebrew Heroes - A Tale Founded on Jewish History • AKA A.L.O.E. A.L.O.E., Charlotte Maria Tucker

... apace, the excitement increases; the faint and shadowy forms of distant objects grow gradually clearer. Where before some tall and misty mountain peak was seen, we now descry patches of deepest blue and sombre olive; the mellow corn and the waving woods, the village spire and the lowly cot, come out of the landscape; ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever


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