Category: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 sshadowy 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.