Lexic.us

Definition of Shadowy

1. Adjective. Filled with shade. "Cool umbrageous woodlands"

2. Adjective. Lacking clarity or distinctness. "A few wispy memories of childhood"

3. Adjective. Lacking in substance. "A wraithlike column of smoke"

Definition of Shadowy

1. a. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Definition of Shadowy

1. dark [adj -OWIER, -OWIEST] - See also: dark

Medical Definition of Shadowy

1. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." "This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods." (Shak) 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." 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 sshadowy 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadowy

shadowgraphies shadowgraphs shadowgraphy shadowier shadowiest shadowily shadowiness shadowinesses shadowing shadowing

shadowing (histology) shadowless shadowlike shadows shadowy (current term) shadowy (current term) shadow cabinet shadow cells shadow corpuscle shadow mask

shadow nucleus shadow play shadow show shadow test shadrach shadrach shadrachs shads shaduf shadufs

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