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shadowy
(encz) | shadowy,stinný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
shadowy
(encz) | shadowy,temný adj: luke |
Shadowy
(gcide) | 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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shadowy
(wn) | 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] |
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shadowy
(encz) | shadowy,stinný adj: Zdeněk Brožshadowy,temný adj: luke |
Overshadowy
(gcide) | Overshadowy \O"ver*shad"ow*y\, a.
Overshadowing. [R.]
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shadowy
(wn) | 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] |
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