Definition of Shadowy

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Shadowy

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.

Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

Faintly representative; hence, typical.

Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.

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Shadowy Quotations

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
Francis Parkman

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
Tom Coburn

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Jon Ronson

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Greil Marcus

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
Amy Levy

Shadowy Translations

shadowy in German is schattenhaften, schattenhaft
shadowy in Italian is incerto

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