shadowy English

Meaning shadowy meaning

What does shadowy mean?

shadowy

— adjective (= shady, shadowed, umbrageous) 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

— adjective (= wraithlike) lacking in substance strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds — W.A.Butler dim shadowy forms a wraithlike column of smoke

— adjective (= dim, faint, vague, wispy) 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

Synonyms shadowy synonyms

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shady

dim

umbrageous

dark

dusky

obscure

murky

gloomy

cloudy

vague

shadowed

faint

wraithlike

wispy

shaded

bowery

blear

unreal

unlit

unlighted

twilit

twilight

turbid

tarnation

suspicious

spectral

somber

sleazy

reflected

phantasmal

orc

mirky

illusory

hell

haze

ghostly

fall

elusive

dusk

dreamlike

darkness

cryptic

crepuscule

crepuscle

blurry

blurred

abstruse

Orcus

Topics shadowy topics

What do people use shadowy to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive See

Transparent

• What words describe something that light shines through but you can't see through clearly?
  translucent frosted cloudy clouded hazy dim unclear vague foggy smoky indistinct faint misty muddy shadowy turbid

States Quality Light Dark

Shadow

• What words describe something in the shadow of something else?
  in the shade shaded shady shadowy

Examples shadowy examples

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Movie subtitles

I have surmised that vampires can only draw their shadowy strength from the cursed earth in which they were buried.

That music tells of the dark evil things, shadowy places.

No, no. It needs to be more. shadowy.

No, no, it wasn't anything so shadowy or complicated.

I'm a shadowy reflection of you.

Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man. who does not exist.

I'm getting interesting shadowy images.

What about that shadowy place?

Just about every criminal element in Metropolis. pays protection money to a shadowy character they call The Boss.

Oh, well, let's say, for instance, that some shadowy government organization decided to conduct an experiment and we were the test subjects.

They meet in a shadowy cafe.

A shadowy flight into the dangerous world. of a man who does not exist.

For a taciturn, shadowy guy, I got a big mouth.

Works for this red, glowing-eyed, shadowy dude, you know-enemy of life as we know it. Shh.

I mean, there are these shadowy streets.

And so it's a very shadowy context in which this drama is played out.

For me it's like being carried on shadowy arms. up to a distant cloud. and there I float 'til mornin'.

And here's a real sun, and a real moon, and then a rather shadowy and formless mass of electric potentiality with little bright sparks in it.

You'll penetrate that shadowy zone. where you've never been able to enter before.

He elicited quivering colours from the shadowy transparency of the background and made them the invisible centre of his silent symphony.

Yes. but I don't think it corresponds to what Thomas is really about. Certainly, Thomas is.. He has an element of mystery, but. as in anyone there are shadowy areas.

Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world. of a man who does not exist.

Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

In a short while.. The past will be but a shadowy memory.

I told you he was in the shadowy part of the hall.

Uh, well, let's say, for instance, that some. Shadowy government organization decided to conduct an experiment.

Just walk into the dark, shadowy part of the forest where no one can see you.

And when Meredith Blake appeared from the shadowy path onto the sunny garden, he could not see clearly. Only his friend turning slowly around, unable to covey the fact that he was in the grip of a paralysis that was fatal.

It sticks to you as a kind of a shadowy presence.

And I would see the. I guess you'd call it like the, like just a mass, like the shadowy figure that would be at the foot of my bed. It was always at the foot of my bed, never at the foot of her bed.

Looks like a sort of shadowy thing.

The maze of roots is a shadowy habitat for many creatures.

News and current affairs

Saddam Hussein heads a state, not a shadowy terrorist outfit.

The government employs a host of new legal regulations, a shadowy internet police force, and a powerful hardware-based national information filtering system.

This may or may not bring shudders of horror, but will certainly not occur outside the law or in some shadowy offshore location.

In films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, shadowy enemies lurk in an hallucinatory darkness of fetid swamps and jungles.

While it is legitimate to demand that the Brotherhood become a regular legal organization, rather than a shadowy network fronted by the Freedom and Justice Party, criminalization of political activity has no place in a constitutional democracy.

Terror is a shadowy enemy.

The result was a hastily patched together deal in which Russia and Ukraine each gave ground on price, and a shadowy Swiss-based company half-owned by Gazprom rolled supplies of cheap gas from Turkmenistan into the equation.

By placing Ukraine's energy needs in the hands of a shadowy company linked to international criminals, the agreement has planted the seeds of new and perhaps more dangerous crises.

The way to deal with uncertainty and complex situations is to think clearly and act decisively, not cut deals that place Ukraine's future in the hands of shadowy businesses.

In keeping with his shadowy KGB background, very little.

DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa - the party's shadowy power broker - resigned from his post simultaneously with Hatoyama.

A shadowy mafia-style company, Sheriff, owns most of the economy.

None of the youths I talked to could give any clear explanation for their actions, except to say that an Islamic schoolteacher known as Ustadz So had recruited them into a shadowy militant movement.

Some specific advances, unprecedented in the shadowy world of intelligence agencies, have accompanied this rhetorical commitment to privacy.

Whether we have the political will to implement effective controls is, as always, another question - in large part because the big banks are very powerful and they would like the shadows to remain as shadowy as they are now.

But will they be able to stand up to the powerful lobby of big banks and their shadowy allies?

It is likely that this operation was propelled from Pakistan through the Lashkar e Tauba, a terrorist organization sustained by hatred of secular India and backed by shadowy Pakistani agencies and street support.

And the ongoing Karmapa saga, with its shadowy politics and intrigue, could turn out to be only the opening act - a foretaste of what may come when two dueling Dalai Lamas emerge after the incumbent passes from the scene.