shadowy

  • (s) 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
    shadowed, umbrageous, shady,
  • (s) 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
    dim, faint, wispy, vague,
  • (s) lacking in substance
    • "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler
    • dim shadowy forms
    • a wraithlike column of smoke
    wraithlike,

Synonyms

shadowed umbrageous shady dim faint wispy vague wraithlike

Words of close approximity

shadow