shadowy

1. a. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. Source: opted

2. a. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. Source: opted

3. a. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. Source: opted

4. a. Faintly representative; hence, typical. Source: opted

5. a. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. Source: opted

6. adj. filled with shade Source: wordnet

7. adj. lacking clarity or distinctness Source: wordnet

8. adj. lacking in substance Source: wordnet

9. 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 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: webster

10. j:100 s. lacking in substance Source: ecdict

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