Shadowy

a.	1.	Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. - Shak.
	2.	Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
	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.

Adj.	1.	shadowy - 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" Synonyms: shadowed, umbrageous, shady
	2.	shadowy - 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" Synonyms: dim, faint, wispy, vague
	3.	shadowy - lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" Synonyms: wraithlike

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