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adjective

Shadowy adj.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." "This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods."

Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past."

Not brightly luminous; faintly light. "The moon... with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things."

Faintly representative; hence, typical. "From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit."

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shadowy" Quotes from Famous Books

... interruptions from his opponents. For a moment he was pulled up, when to his rhetorical question, "What has Home Rule meant to us?" some graceless Coalitionist promptly answered, "Votes!" but he soon got going again. Ireland, he declared, was a unit. The Bill gave her dualism "with a shadowy background of remote and potential unity." The vaunted Council was "a fleshless and bloodless skeleton." He remarked upon "the sombre acquiescence of the Ulstermen," and wondered why they had accepted the Bill at all. "Because we don't trust you," came the swift ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 7, 1920 • Various

... towards the door, and then a loud knocking; it was opened, and in rushed a wild-looking man mounted upon a donkey. He wore a jerkin of sheepskin, called in Spanish zamarras, with breeches of the same as far down as his knee; his legs were bare. Around his sombrero, or shadowy hat, was tied a large quantity of the herb called in English rosemary, in Spanish romero, and in the rustic language of Portugal ellecrin, which last is a word of Scandinavian origin, and properly signifies the elfin plant. [It was probably] carried into the south ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

... looked into the shadowy place she realized that it was the harpist. His very presence so near her made Ruth shrink and tremble for an instant. But then she recovered her ...

— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson

... outside door she swung it open and looked out. Far out upon the clear, moonlit sweep of plain stretching toward Willets, she saw the shadowy figures of two horsemen. ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... and this, with the white dress of the young widow, gave the effect of the emblematic whiteness of a child's funeral; and the impression was heightened by the floating curling white clouds of vapour rising in strange shrouded shadowy forms, like spirit mourners, from the narrow ravines round the grave-yard, and the snowy mountains shining in the morning light against ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

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