shad·owy /ˈʃædoi, dəwi/
(a.)有影的,暗黑的,朦朧的,虛幻的
Shad·ow·y a.
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. “Shadowy verdure.”
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. “The shadowy past.”
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.
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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]