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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, adjective
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. ''Shadowy verdure.'' --Fenton.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. ''The shadowy past.'' --Longfellow.
3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. --Milton.
4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. --Milton.
5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {shady}, {shadowed}, {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}, {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: {wraithlike}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "shadowy": 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
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