Shadowy

Definition: Shadowy

Shadowy

Adjective

1. 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".

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".

3. Lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shadowy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Shadowy

Inexistence

Adjective: inexistent, nonexistent; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.

Unsubstantiality

Visionary; (imaginary); immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.

Crosswords: Shadowy

I've gotta bag of uh hamburgers for you. All you have to do is to come out into the dark shadowy part of the woods where no one can see you (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera)

Ahem, Dr. Scudworth, theirs growing concern among the board of shadowy figures that you'requite insane (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound (New York: A Documentary Film; writing credit: Ric Burns; James Sanders)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bright Lights and Shadowy Shapes (Spyglass Books) (reference)

• Con Tricks: The Shadowy World Management Consultancy and How to Make It Work for You (reference)

• Druid Craft: The Writing of the Shadowy Waters (reference)

• Gravy Training: Inside the Shadowy World of Business Schools (reference)

• Shadowy Heroes: Irish Literature of the 1890s (Irish Studies Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Better Than Average Weekend: A Tribute to Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Woman with arms outstretched looking up staircase with shadowy figures at top. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands

This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself

He thinks of the shadowy adventures of his lifeless body in the limitless gloom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Peru

However, the revelations of corruption accelerated and President Fujimori and his shadowy intelligence chief separately abandoned the country by mid-November 2000. This left a transitional government headed by President Valentin Paniagua to oversee new elections, which were successfully held in April and June 2001. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "shadowy": ever-more-shadowy.

Albanian

i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i mugët (dusky, obscure). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مظلل, ‏ظليل (covert, shady, umbrageous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смътен (cloudy, dreamy, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, misty, obscure, remote, sneaking, unformed, vague), сенчест (shady, tenebrous, umbrageous), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), недействителен (inofficious, inoperative, invalid, nude, null, null and void, unreal, unverifiable, void), засенчест (shady), призрачен (dreamy, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spooky, unearthly, unsubstantial, visionary). (various references)

Chinese 

有陰影 , 朦胧 (hazy, obscurity). (various references)

Czech

stinný (shady, umbrageous), tmavý (black, dark, darksome, deep, nubilous, swarthy), šerý (dim, dusky, lacklustre, murky). (various references)

Farsi 

سایه مانند, سایه افکن (Shady), سایه دار (Shady, Umbrageous), زودگذر (Ephemeral, Fleet, Frail, Glancing, Glint, Light, Memnetary, Perishable, Temporary, Transient, Transitory). (various references)

Finnish

varjomainen (shadow-like). (various references)

French

vague (shady), ombreux, ombragé (shady), indistinct. (various references)

German

schattenhaft (fuzzy, shadow-like, vague). (various references)

Greek 

σκιώδησ (shady), σκιώδης, σκιερόσ (bowery, shady, umbrageous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוצל (shady), מעורפל (dim, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, misty, nebulous), צללי. (various references)

Hungarian

árnyékos (adumbral, shaded, shady). (various references)

Italian

ombroso (nervous, shaded, shady, skittish, touchy), indistinto (dim, fuzzy, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, nebulous, undistinguishable, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), incerto (aleatory, borderline, dim, doubtful, dubious, in question, irresolute, open, questionable, tentative, touch and go, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unsettled, unsure, vague). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蒼茫 (dusky). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうぼう (dusky, features, longing, looks, pair of eyes, priests' temple quarters, yearning). (various references)

Korean 

그림자 지는. (various references)

Manx

scaagh (bashful, shady, timid), scaadooagh (shadowing, shady). (various references)

Pig Latin

adowyshay.(various references)

Portuguese

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), umbroso (umbrageous), irreal (airy, artificial, dreamlike, hollow, insubstantial, notional, phantasmal, unreal, visional), como uma sombra, cheio de sombras. (various references)

Romanian

sumbru (black, cloudy, dark, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, overcast, somber, sombre), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), umbrit (overlaid with clouds, shady), tenebros (dark, gloomy, tenebrous), nelãmurit (obscure, uncertain, unenlightened, vague, vaguely), întunecos (dark, darkish, dim, dingy, gloomy, murkily, murky, obscure, twilight). (various references)

Russian 

смутный (dim, foggy, hazy, indistinct, nebulous), тенистый (shadeful, shady, umbrageous), темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit), призрачный (ghostly, illusive, phantasmal, phantom, spectral, spooky, visionary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

senovit (bowery, shady, umbrageous), sanjalački (dreamy), poput senke, hladovit (shady). (various references)

Spanish

sombreado (shading, shadow, shady, umbrageous), sombrío (cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, dull, glum, somber, sombre), vago (bone-idle, erratic, faint, idle, Idler, lazybones, loiterer, loose, nameless, sketchy, slacker, slouch, sloven, tramp, truant, twilight, vacant, vague), quimérico (chimerical), oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, twilight, vat), fantomático (mysterious). (various references)

Swedish

skuggig (bowery, shaded, shady), mystisk (arcane, inscrutable, mysterious, mysteriousness, mystic, mystical, uncanny). (various references)

Thai

ลึกลับ (mystic, occult), คล้ายเงา. (various references)

Turkish

loş (dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, shady, somber, sombre), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), hayal meyal (dreaming, dreamy, fuzzy, indistinct, indistinctly, misty, vague), gölgeli (clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, shady), gölge gibi (shady), belli belirsiz (dreaming, dreamy, faint, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, indistinctly, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, slight, slightly, soft, tentative, vaguely), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian

тінистий (bowery, shaded, shadeful, shady), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tối (dark, dusky, fuscous, gravely, night, obscure, p.m., pip emma, post meridiem), mờ ảo mờ mờ, không rõ rệt (foggy, unnoticeable), có bóng tối; có bóng râm không thực. (various references)

Misspellings

"Shadowy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saddawi, Sadowa, Sadowiz, shaddow, shadowe, shadowers, shadowier, shadowily, shadoy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: shadow.

-2 letters: dashy, dhows, howdy, hoyas, shady, showy, washy, woads, yodhs.

-3 letters: ados, ahoy, ashy, dahs, dash, daws, days, dhow, dows, haws, hays, hods, hows, hoya, hoys, shad, shaw, shay, shod, show, soda, soya, sway, wads, wady, wash, ways, whoa, whys, woad, yaws, yodh, yods, yows.

-4 letters: ado, ads, ash, ays, dah, daw, day.

+2 letters: shadowily.

+3 letters: bawdyhouse.

+4 letters: bawdyhouses.

+5 letters: shadowgraphy.