shadowyadj.

Brit.

/ˈʃadəʊi/, U.S.

/ˈʃædəwi/

Forms: Middle English shadewy, schadewy, shadwye, Middle English shadwy, schadowye, 1500s shaddowy, 1600s shadowey, Middle English– shadowy.

Etymology: < shadow n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Resembling or of the nature of a shadow.

a. Unsubstantial, impalpable; transitory, fleeting; unreal, imaginary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]

slidinga900

scrithingOE

henwardOE

swifta1225

short livya1325

passing1340

flittingc1374

shadowy1374

temporalc1384

speedfula1400

transitory?c1400

brittlea1425

unabidingc1430

frail?c1450

indurablec1450

scrithel?c1475

caduke1483

transitorious1492

passanta1500

perishinga1500

caducea1513

fugitive?1518

caducal?1548

quick1548

delible1549

flittering1549

undurable?1555

shadowish1561

fleeting1563

vading1566

flightful1571

wanzing1571

transitive1575

slipping1581

diary1583

unlasting1585

never-lasting1588

flit1590

post-like1594

running1598

short-lived1598

short-winded1598

transient1599

unpermanent1607

flashy1609

of a day1612

passable1613

dureless1614

urgenta1616

waxena1616

decayable1617

horary1620

evanid1626

fugitable1628

short-dated1632

fugacious1635

ephemerala1639

impermanent1653

fungous1655

volatile1655

ephemerousa1660

unimmortal1667

timesome1674

while-being1674

of passage1680

journal1685

ephemeron1714

admovent1727

evanescent1728

meteorous1750

deciduous1763

preterient1786

ephemeridal1795

meteorica1802

meteor1803

ephemerean1804

ephemerid1804

evanescing1805

fleeted1810

fleet1812

unenduring1814

unremaining1817

unimmortalized1839

impersistent1849

flighty1850

uneternal1862

caducous1863

diurnal1866

horarious1866

brisk1879

evasive1881

picaresque1959

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent

shadowy1374

phantom?c1450

shadowish1561

dreamish1563

fleshlessa1592

dreamya1594

shadowed1597

unreal1605

phantasmatic1607

dreamlike1615

umbratilous1637

phantasmatical1642

umbratile1647

moonshine1668

phantomical1687

visionary1697

faerie1767

filmlike1804

phantasmal1805

spectral1816

moonshiny1821

phantomatica1834

parheliacal1852

phantomic1878

translunar1927

celluloid1928

1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Skeat) II. ii. pr. iv. 60 Thise shadewy transitorie dignitees [L. has umbratiles dignitates].

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 When in one night..His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn That ten day-labourers could not end.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 419. ¶8 We find a whole Creation of the like shadowy Persons in Spencer.

1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. vii. 105 He did not follow what they all pursued..; Nor shadowy honour, nor substantial gain.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha v. 68 Gazing with half-open eyelids, Full of shadowy dreams and visions.

1884 Lindley in Law Times Rep. 51 277/1 The plaintiff's case is of such a shadowy, frivolous, and vexatious character.

b. Spectral, ghostly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective]

fantastic1483

fantasticalc1485

spectrical1609

sprightlya1616

spectrene1652

spectrous1652

shadowy1681

visionary1697

ghostly1753

faerie1767

spectry1796

spectral1816

spectrish1822

apparitional1824

phantasiastic1830

spooky1854

astral1877

1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iii. 92 Their Monuments and Sepulchres, where the shadowy Phantasms of such Souls have sometimes appeared.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions v. 44 I now come to the main and most disputed Part of shadowy Appearance, viz. the Apparition of Unembodied Soul.

1804 Moore Passing Deadman's Isl. iv Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 196 From the river of Death he recalls Shadowy ghosts.

c. Faintly perceptible, indistinct, vague.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 40 He perceived a shadowy figure station itself at the entrance of the arch.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxlvii. 192 Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk, and weak.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. v. §32. 113 A belief seeming to them so shadowy and indefinite.

1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 160 A shadowy sail, silent and gray, Stole like a ghost across the bay.

†d. Of the nature of a faint or reflected image; symbolic, typical. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective]

figural?a1500

sacramental1534

shadowing1579

hieroglyphical1581

similitudinary1581

morala1616

symbolical1620

characterical1634

shadowy1641

emblematical1644

emblematic1645

hieroglyphic1647

symbolic1681

emblematizing1751

tokening1820

imagerial1837

twi-necked1840

personating1851

symptomatic1853

symbolizing1909

uroboric1958

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 7 Indeed the description is as sorted best to the apprehension of those times, typicall and shadowie.

1676 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. II (ed. 2) iii. 90 Philosophers had some kind of..dark adumbration or shadowy description of the first principles of Nature.

1726 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. I. 578 That it might the better end the Jews shadowy services.

e. quasi-adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > indistinctly

thicklyc1400

indistinctly1580

obscurelyc1586

veiledly1646

dimly1667

blindly1686

shadowyc1804

mistily1813

hazily1818

filmily1853

shadowly1866

blurrily1868

vaguely1871

smudgedly1889

faintly1892

c1804 T. Moore Odes to Nea vii The broad banana's green embrace Hung shadowy round each tranquil grace.

1828 S. T. Coleridge Christabel (rev. ed.) i, in Poet. Wks. II. 45 A silken robe of white, That shadowy in the moonlight shone.

1897 O. Custance Opals, A Pause In silver mail all shadowy pale, The moon shines white.

a. Abounding in shade; protected from the sun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade

shadowy1398

shadowed1400

umbrous1480

shadowish1530

shadeful1563

shadowous1585

shady1589

umbrageous1622

shaded1635

swaly1820

adumbral1855

umbraged1890

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. lviii His modre huydeþ hym..in schadewi places.

c1450 Burgh Contn. Lydgate Secrees 1918 In placys pleyn moyst and shadwy.

1526 Grete Herball xci. sig. Fij/2 It ought to be gadred whan it bereth floures and than be hanged to dry in a shadowy place.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xi. 23 Primroses and Cow~slips joy most in shadowy places.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 345 The blueish tint, that pervaded their shadowy recesses.

1824 M. M. Sherwood Waste Not iii. 3 The various shadowy lanes branching off from the high road.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 41 When he smote the shadowy twilight with his healthy team sublime.

b. Enveloped in shadow; obscured by shadows.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure

obscurea1425

opaque?1440

caliginousc1550

half-dark1576

murksome1590

opacousa1627

twilight1645

shadowy1840

twilighty1856

twilighted1865

twilit1869

1840 Susan E. Miles in Palmer Bk. Praise (1865) 70 Our spirits shall not dread The shadowy way to tread.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxii. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 75 A shadow there at my feet, High over the shadowy land.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 239 From the shadowy archway came a shining lantern, which was seen to be dangling from the hand of..the hostler, John.

†c. Screened from observation, retired; hence, remote, inaccessible. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective]

secrec1374

blindc1386

privatea1513

secret?a1513

shadowy1555

close1571

retired1593

retrait1603

sequestrate1632

recessful1646

recluse1650

reserved1653

secessive1653

coy1670

sequestrated1726

slya1764

secluded1798

shy1841

retiracied1856

undisprivacied1870

madding1874

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 177 These [Gymnosophistæ] haunte the outemoste borders, and shadowie partes of that countrie.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 369 Then they wash it with the bloud of a slaine Wolfe, and carry it into a shadowie place.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 2 This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods I better brooke then flourishing peopled Townes.

3. Casting a shadow, affording shade.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade

umbrosea1425

shadowing1552

umbrate?1553

shadeful1563

shady1579

shadinga1586

umbrageous1587

shadowy1607

umbriferous1616

umbratile1659

umbracious1839

adumbral1845

umbering1872

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 605 About noone when the season groweth hot, they lead them [sc. sheep] to shaddowey trees and rocks.

1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 515 The shadowy palm.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 250 To climb the rocks when the sun is hot and creep into cool shadowy ledges.

†4. Of an inflorescence: Shaped like a ‘shadow’ or umbrella. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > having particular shape, type, or arrangement

shadowy1562

tasselling1829

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 107^v A shaddowy or spokye top with a round circle as dyll.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xlii. 606 The stalkes..be full of branches, vppon the which grow spoky tufts or litle shadowy toppes with white flowers.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxx. 760 The flowers [of the Viburnum Opulus] be white, and grow in brode round shadowy tuffetes.

5. In combinations.

ΚΠ

1855 Ld. Tennyson Daisy in Maud & Other Poems 141 A thousand shadowy-pencill'd valleys And snowy dells.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	shadowy
释义	shadowyadj. Brit. /ˈʃadəʊi/, U.S. /ˈʃædəwi/ Forms: Middle English shadewy, schadewy, shadwye, Middle English shadwy, schadowye, 1500s shaddowy, 1600s shadowey, Middle English– shadowy. Etymology: < shadow n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Resembling or of the nature of a shadow. a. Unsubstantial, impalpable; transitory, fleeting; unreal, imaginary. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent shadowy1374 phantom?c1450 shadowish1561 dreamish1563 fleshlessa1592 dreamya1594 shadowed1597 unreal1605 phantasmatic1607 dreamlike1615 umbratilous1637 phantasmatical1642 umbratile1647 moonshine1668 phantomical1687 visionary1697 faerie1767 filmlike1804 phantasmal1805 spectral1816 moonshiny1821 phantomatica1834 parheliacal1852 phantomic1878 translunar1927 celluloid1928 1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Skeat) II. ii. pr. iv. 60 Thise shadewy transitorie dignitees [L. has umbratiles dignitates]. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 When in one night..His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn That ten day-labourers could not end. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 419. ¶8 We find a whole Creation of the like shadowy Persons in Spencer. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. vii. 105 He did not follow what they all pursued..; Nor shadowy honour, nor substantial gain. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha v. 68 Gazing with half-open eyelids, Full of shadowy dreams and visions. 1884 Lindley in Law Times Rep. 51 277/1 The plaintiff's case is of such a shadowy, frivolous, and vexatious character. b. Spectral, ghostly. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective] fantastic1483 fantasticalc1485 spectrical1609 sprightlya1616 spectrene1652 spectrous1652 shadowy1681 visionary1697 ghostly1753 faerie1767 spectry1796 spectral1816 spectrish1822 apparitional1824 phantasiastic1830 spooky1854 astral1877 1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iii. 92 Their Monuments and Sepulchres, where the shadowy Phantasms of such Souls have sometimes appeared. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions v. 44 I now come to the main and most disputed Part of shadowy Appearance, viz. the Apparition of Unembodied Soul. 1804 Moore Passing Deadman's Isl. iv Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 196 From the river of Death he recalls Shadowy ghosts. c. Faintly perceptible, indistinct, vague. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 40 He perceived a shadowy figure station itself at the entrance of the arch. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxlvii. 192 Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk, and weak. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. v. §32. 113 A belief seeming to them so shadowy and indefinite. 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 160 A shadowy sail, silent and gray, Stole like a ghost across the bay. †d. Of the nature of a faint or reflected image; symbolic, typical. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective] figural?a1500 sacramental1534 shadowing1579 hieroglyphical1581 similitudinary1581 morala1616 symbolical1620 characterical1634 shadowy1641 emblematical1644 emblematic1645 hieroglyphic1647 symbolic1681 emblematizing1751 tokening1820 imagerial1837 twi-necked1840 personating1851 symptomatic1853 symbolizing1909 uroboric1958 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 7 Indeed the description is as sorted best to the apprehension of those times, typicall and shadowie. 1676 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. II (ed. 2) iii. 90 Philosophers had some kind of..dark adumbration or shadowy description of the first principles of Nature. 1726 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. I. 578 That it might the better end the Jews shadowy services. e. quasi-adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > indistinctly thicklyc1400 indistinctly1580 obscurelyc1586 veiledly1646 dimly1667 blindly1686 shadowyc1804 mistily1813 hazily1818 filmily1853 shadowly1866 blurrily1868 vaguely1871 smudgedly1889 faintly1892 c1804 T. Moore Odes to Nea vii The broad banana's green embrace Hung shadowy round each tranquil grace. 1828 S. T. Coleridge Christabel (rev. ed.) i, in Poet. Wks. II. 45 A silken robe of white, That shadowy in the moonlight shone. 1897 O. Custance Opals, A Pause In silver mail all shadowy pale, The moon shines white. 2. a. Abounding in shade; protected from the sun. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade shadowy1398 shadowed1400 umbrous1480 shadowish1530 shadeful1563 shadowous1585 shady1589 umbrageous1622 shaded1635 swaly1820 adumbral1855 umbraged1890 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. lviii His modre huydeþ hym..in schadewi places. c1450 Burgh Contn. Lydgate Secrees 1918 In placys pleyn moyst and shadwy. 1526 Grete Herball xci. sig. Fij/2 It ought to be gadred whan it bereth floures and than be hanged to dry in a shadowy place. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xi. 23 Primroses and Cow~slips joy most in shadowy places. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 345 The blueish tint, that pervaded their shadowy recesses. 1824 M. M. Sherwood Waste Not iii. 3 The various shadowy lanes branching off from the high road. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 41 When he smote the shadowy twilight with his healthy team sublime. b. Enveloped in shadow; obscured by shadows. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure obscurea1425 opaque?1440 caliginousc1550 half-dark1576 murksome1590 opacousa1627 twilight1645 shadowy1840 twilighty1856 twilighted1865 twilit1869 1840 Susan E. Miles in Palmer Bk. Praise (1865) 70 Our spirits shall not dread The shadowy way to tread. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxii. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 75 A shadow there at my feet, High over the shadowy land. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 239 From the shadowy archway came a shining lantern, which was seen to be dangling from the hand of..the hostler, John. †c. Screened from observation, retired; hence, remote, inaccessible. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] secrec1374 blindc1386 privatea1513 secret?a1513 shadowy1555 close1571 retired1593 retrait1603 sequestrate1632 recessful1646 recluse1650 reserved1653 secessive1653 coy1670 sequestrated1726 slya1764 secluded1798 shy1841 retiracied1856 undisprivacied1870 madding1874 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 177 These [Gymnosophistæ] haunte the outemoste borders, and shadowie partes of that countrie. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 369 Then they wash it with the bloud of a slaine Wolfe, and carry it into a shadowie place. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 2 This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods I better brooke then flourishing peopled Townes. View more context for this quotation 3. Casting a shadow, affording shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade umbrosea1425 shadowing1552 umbrate?1553 shadeful1563 shady1579 shadinga1586 umbrageous1587 shadowy1607 umbriferous1616 umbratile1659 umbracious1839 adumbral1845 umbering1872 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 605 About noone when the season groweth hot, they lead them [sc. sheep] to shaddowey trees and rocks. 1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 515 The shadowy palm. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 250 To climb the rocks when the sun is hot and creep into cool shadowy ledges. †4. Of an inflorescence: Shaped like a ‘shadow’ or umbrella. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > having particular shape, type, or arrangement shadowy1562 tasselling1829 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 107^v A shaddowy or spokye top with a round circle as dyll. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xlii. 606 The stalkes..be full of branches, vppon the which grow spoky tufts or litle shadowy toppes with white flowers. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxx. 760 The flowers [of the Viburnum Opulus] be white, and grow in brode round shadowy tuffetes. 5. In combinations. ΚΠ 1855 Ld. Tennyson Daisy in Maud & Other Poems 141 A thousand shadowy-pencill'd valleys And snowy dells. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1374
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