shadowy
Other forms: shadowily
The adjective shadowy is good for describing things that are mysterious or hard to see, like a dim figure in the fog or the social rules of a typical middle school.
Indistinct or faint objects are shadowy, whether they're distant people standing in a dark alley or birds you can barely see against the choppy surface of the ocean. You can also describe something that's ghostly or unreal as shadowy. A shadowy room or a shadowy figure brushing past you would both be insubstantial and vaguely spooky. The root of shadowy is the Old English word sceadu, "shade, shadow, or darkness."
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filled with shade“we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove”synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageousshadedprotected from heat and light with shade or shadow
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lacking clarity or distinctness“shadowy figures in the gloom”indistinctnot clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand
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lacking in substance“"strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler”“dim shadowy forms”synonyms: wraithlike
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Vocabulary lists containing shadowy
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