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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a.
     1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
        ``Shadowy verdure.'' --Fenton.
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              This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
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     2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. ``The shadowy past.''
        --Longfellow.
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     3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
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              The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
              Shadowy sets off the face things.     --Milton.
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     4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
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              From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
                                                    --Milton.
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     5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
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              Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
              shadowy
              and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and
              Death.                                --Addison.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  shadowy
       adj 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"
              [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]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     Αγγλικά a.
     σκιερός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     a.
     1 In shadow; darkened by shadows.
     2 (lb en of character) Dark, obscure.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     a.
     1 In shadow; darkened by shadows.
     2 (lb en of character) Dark, obscure.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     a.
     1 In shadow; darkened by shadows.
     2 (lb en of character) Dark, obscure.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     a.
     1 In shadow; darkened by shadows.
     2 (lb en of character) Dark, obscure.

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  shadowy
     Engelska a.
     1 skuggig
     2 mörk, skymd, obskyr, mystisk

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/
  غامض

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  shadowy //ˈʃæd.oʊ.i// //ˈʃæd.əʊ.i// 
  1. неясен, смътен
  Vague, unclear etc. as of an insubstantial image
  2. сенчест
  of or pertaining to shadow

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/ 
  stinný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/ 
  temný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/
  schattenhaft 
   see: shadowier, more shadowy, shadowiest, most shadowy
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/
  
  σκιώδης

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  shadowy //ˈʃæd.oʊ.i// //ˈʃæd.əʊ.i// 
  hämärä
  of or pertaining to shadow

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/ 
  1. छायादार
        "We were lucky to get a shadowy place in the stadium."
  2. अस्पष्ट
        "A shadowy figure glimpsed in the twilight."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/
  hladovit, mračan, mutan, nejasan, prividan, sjenovit, varljiv, zamagljen

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  shadowy /ʃˈadəʊi/
  árnyékos

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  shadowy /ˈʃædəʊɪ/ 
   1.  zacieniony, zaciemniony
   2.  ledwo zarysowany
   3.  mroczny

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈʃædoʊi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "shadowy":
     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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 有影的,暗黑的,朦胧的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 有影的,暗黑的,朦胧的,虚幻的

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