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shadowy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., shadewy , "full of shadows," also "transitory, fleeting, unreal;" see shadow (n.) + -y (2). From 1797 as "faintly perceptible." Related: Shadowiness . Old English had sceadwig "shady."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In shadow; darkened by shadows. 2 (context of character English) Dark, obscure.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN corner ▪ The cherubim at the shadowy corners of the ceiling mourned with him, their mouths downturned. figure ▪ And then, for some reason, she thought of Miranda and the shadowy figure of Terence Patch. ▪ The best ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. ``Shadowy verdure.'' --Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. ``The shadowy past.'' --Longfellow. Not brightly ...
Usage examples of shadowy.
Walking across the soggy ash, Longo noted shadowy figures standing guard at the foot of the landers.
Hades by metonymy for the grave, or have imagined that a shadowy fac simile of what was interred in the grave went into the grim kingdom of Pluto.
The young guard Millward had finally drawn his sword, he swiped at the thing but it gave no ground, only let out a rumbling hiss, a sound more like stone scraping on stone than the breath of a living animal, and sank back on itself, its shadowy form became darker and thicker.
It was a gloomy shadowy place at the best, but in those hideous shadows lurked the obscene shapes of monstrous polyps and strange, misformed fish which were like the creations of a nightmare.
This light, known as loglo, fills in the shadowy corners of the unit with seedy, oversaturated colors.
Then he was standing on the gray and formless plain, seeing with surprise that behind him, in the overworld, there was a landmark, a dim structure, still shadowy.
She waved her hands at them, like a child shooing flies from honeyed bread, but she seemed apprehensive when they crossed the room, moving to stand in a shadowy, paneled corner.
After he gives the hand signal, the biomembrane is wheeled in by Pitkin and Georgette from that shadowy area with me leading the way.
Lying on their backs, awake, under the green electric blanket, gazing up into the shadowy labyrinths of the plasterwork ceiling, their bodies separated by the width of their clinging hands, Bill and Janice finally talked.
Tomb whose shadowy shaft sinks precipitously for fiftythree feet to a sinister sarcophagus which one of our camel drivers divested of the cumbering sand after a vertiginous descent by rope.
A pair of shadowy figures crawled out from beneath a desk across the room, resolving into Dillian Pressor and his son, Jorad, as they stepped beneath one of the permlights.
The salt prinkled on my lips, and the air was filled with the hoarse roar of the surge and the thin piping of curlews, who flitted past in the darkness like white, shadowy, sad-voiced creatures from some other world.
The vaulted roof, with its quaintly carved angels, was for the most part dim and shadowy, but here and there a ray of sunshine, slanting in through the clerestory windows, changed the sombre tones to a golden splendor.
She slipped between two shaggy-barked fir trees to wait, her dark cloak blending with the gloom of the shadowy afternoon, the white quatrefoil emblem of the Guards on her shoulder like a patch of snow on wet-darkened wood.
On one side were the dim outlines of the ramshackly collection of warehouses and stores and, on the other, the shadowy railroad station.