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shadowy
adjective
1 shadowy
Filled with shade:
— We sat on rocks in a shadowy cove.
synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous.
Roget 2:
inexistent†,
nonexistent
etc.
1;
negative,
blank;
missing,
omitted;
absent
etc.
187;
insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary.
unreal,
potential,
virtual;
baseless,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
vain.
unborn,
uncreated†,
unbegotten,
unconceived,
unproduced,
unmade.
perished,
annihilated,
etc.
v.;
extinct,
exhausted,
gone,
lost,
vanished,
departed,
gone with the wind;
defunct
etc.
(dead)
360.
fabulous,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515,
supposititious
etc.
514.
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Roget 4:
unsubstantial;
baseless,
groundless;
ungrounded;
without foundation,
having no foundation.
visionary
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
immaterial
etc.
137;
spectral
etc.
980;
dreamy;
shadowy;
ethereal,
airy;
cloud built,
cloud formed;
gossamery,
illusory,
insubstantial,
unreal.
vacant,
vacuous;
empty
etc.
187;
eviscerated;
blank,
hollow;
nominal;
null;
inane.
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2 shadowy
Lacking clarity or distinctness:
— Shadowy figures in the gloom.
synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy.
Roget 447:
invisible,
imperceptible;
undiscernible†,
indiscernible;
unapparent,
non-apparent;
out of sight,
not in sight;
a perte de vue [Fr.];
behind the scenes,
behind the curtain;
viewless,
sightless;
inconspicuous,
unconspicuous†;
unseen
etc.
(see)
etc.
441;
covert
etc.
(latent)
526;
eclipsed,
under an eclipse.
dim
etc.
(faint)
422;
mysterious,
dark,
obscure,
confused;
indistinct,
indistinguishable;
shadowy,
indefinite,
undefined;
ill-defined,
ill-marked;
blurred,
fuzzy,
out of focus;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
delitescent†.
hidden,
obscured,
covered,
veiled
(concealed)
528.
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3 shadowy
Lacking in substance:
— Strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds.
— Dim shadowy forms.
synonym: wraithlike.
Moby thesaurus: air-built, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, asomatous, astral, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, bodiless, bosky, bowery, broad, cadaverous, chance, chancy, chaotic, chimerical, clear as mud, cloud-built, cloudy, confused, corpselike, dark, darkling, deathlike, decarnate, decarnated, dim, discarnate, disembodied, disordered, dreamlike, dusky, ectoplasmic, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, faint, fancied, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, filmy, fleeting, foggy, fuzzy, gaseous, general, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, gloomy, gossamery, half-seen, half-visible, hallucinatory, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, incorporate, incorporeal, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, insubstantial, intangible, lax, leafy, loose, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonspecific, notional, obscure, obumbrate, obumbrated, occult, opaque, orderless, otherworldly, out of focus, overshaded, overshadowed, pale, penumbral, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, psychic, random, rarefied, semivisible, shaded, shadow, shadowed forth, shady, shapeless, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, spirituous, stochastic, subtile, subtle, supernatural, sweeping, tenuous, transcendent, transitory, transmundane, umbral, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unplain, unreal, unrecognizable, unspecified, unsubstantial, unworldly, vague, vaporous, veiled, visionary, weak, windy, wraithlike, wraithy ... show more.
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