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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shadowy
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 Rather could do was enthuse about shadowy figures in crowds who might or might not be somebody guilty of something.
▪ In all these transactions Balbinder seemed a shadowy figure.
▪ Following a brief but noisy scuffle, the window banged open and a shadowy figure burst through.
▪ To the right, open double doors hinted at shadowy figures.
▪ The veteran police officer had spotted a shadowy figure on the second floor of the complex.
▪ As his consciousness slipped away from him, he was aware of a shadowy figure appearing from the mist and standing over him.
▪ She sat down, then looked up to see the shadowy figure of the woman at the bar standing over her.
figures
▪ To the right, open double doors hinted at shadowy figures.
▪ The best Rather could do was enthuse about shadowy figures in crowds who might or might not be somebody guilty of something.
▪ Rob and Sarah Morrison are two of those shadowy figures who have contributed so much to the growth of freestyle in Britain.
▪ They saw shadowy figures in the semidarkness and opened fire.
▪ And some of those shadowy figures were men of his group.
▪ Now he could see only a few shadowy figures half-glimpsed through the mists of the cooking fumes.
▪ She looked carefully at the picture, studying the rings on the index fingers of the two shadowy figures.
▪ Philip waited, crouched on the wet leaves listening, staring into the trees, looking for movement, shadowy figures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a shadowy figure at the back of the crowd
▪ a shadowy network of terrorist groups
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cley was left once more in his chambers, in the shadowy silence which was now his greatest pleasure.
▪ Gripping her spear in white hands, she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle.
▪ Most stayed, under the shadowy evergreens, among the tall sycamores and beeches on the bluff above the water.
▪ Shadows merge into the snow; the woodcut turns into a shadowy chalk drawing.
▪ She sat down, then looked up to see the shadowy figure of the woman at the bar standing over her.
▪ The male roles, on the other hand, are shadowy and unformed, even within the stereotypes they represent.
▪ To the right, open double doors hinted at shadowy figures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shadowy

Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a.

  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 shadowy 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shadowy

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
shadowy

a. 1 In shadow; darkened by shadows. 2 (context of character English) Dark, obscure.

WordNet
shadowy

  1. adj. filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands" [syn: shady, shadowed, umbrageous]

  2. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, vague, wispy]

  3. lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" [syn: wraithlike]

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.