Shadowy - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈʃædəʊɪ|  American pronunciation of the word shadowy
Brit.  |ˈʃædəʊɪ|  British pronunciation of the word shadowy

adjective

- filled with shade (syn: shady, umbrageous)
we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove
- lacking clarity or distinctness (syn: dim, faint, vague, wispy)
shadowy figures in the gloom
- lacking in substance
strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds
dim shadowy forms

Extra examples

She was pursued by a shadowy figure.

He had only a shadowy idea of what they wanted him to do.

The English king Arthur is a somewhat shadowy figure.

The shadowy forms of several people were visible through the smoke.

...unable to find any tracks in the snow the next morning, I was forced to conclude that the shadowy figure had been a figment of my imagination...

He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog.

A shadowy life - artless, joyless, loveless.

Lighted shade and shadowy light in the wayside and the way.

We have been looking at the shadowy world of the paranormal.

Word forms

adjective
comparative: shadowier
superlative: shadowiest
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