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shadow

noun

1 shadow

Shade within clear boundaries.

Roget 424: shade; awning etc. (cover) 223; parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, ... show more

Roget 281: sequence; coming after etc. (order) 63; (time) 117; following pursuit etc. 622.    follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, ... show more

Roget 203: narrowness etc. adj.; closeness, exility; exiguity etc. (little) 193.    line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, ... show more

Roget 88: accompaniment; adjunct etc. 39; context; appendage, appurtenance.    coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; ... show more

Roget 21: copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness.    image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, ... show more

Dutch: afschaduwing, schaduw, schaduwbeeld, schim
Polish: chłód, cień

2 shadow

An unilluminated area.

synonyms: dark, darkness.

Roget 421: darkness etc. adj., absence of light; blackness etc. (dark color) 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk etc. (dimness) ... show more

3 shadow

Something existing in perception only.

synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom.

Roget 515: imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve.    warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, ... show more

Roget 4: unsubstantiality, insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.    nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, ... show more

Roget 980: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, ... show more

4 shadow

A premonition of something adverse.

5 shadow

An indication that something has been present.

synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, ... show more

Dutch: teken, spoor, overblijfsel

6 shadow

Refuge from danger or observation.

7 shadow

A dominating and pervasive presence.

8 shadow

A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.

synonyms: shadower, tail.

Dutch: schaduw
Polish: ogon, anioł stróż

9 shadow

An inseparable companion.

verb

1 shadow

Follow, usually without the person's knowledge.

Roget 622: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on etc. (do) 680; engage in ... show more

2 shadow

Cast a shadow over.

synonyms: shade, shade off.

3 shadow

Make appear small by comparison.

synonyms: dwarf, overshadow.


Moby thesaurus: Masan, adherent, adumbrate, adumbration, afterglow, afterimage, air, airy nothing, alter ego, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, appendage, apply paint, arrangement, astral, astral spirit, atman ... show more.

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