shadowy
/ˈʃadəʊi
/adjective (shadowier, shadowiest)
1Full of shadows: a long, shadowy, cobbled passage...
- These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place.
- The entries off High Street offer shadowy potential and an historical dimension, as do the old Courthouse steps.
- He was still staring off down the shadowy street.
Synonyms
dark, dim, gloomy, murky;
shady, shaded, sunless
literary tenebrous, crepuscular
rare tenebrious, umbrageous, umbrose, umbriferous, umbrous, caliginous, Cimmerian
1.1Of uncertain identity or nature: a shadowy figure appeared through the mist the shadowy world of covert operations...
- It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene.
- Beyond one shadowy figure, never identified, no other suspect was ever turned up.
- Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room.
Synonyms
indistinct, hazy, indefinite, lacking definition, out of focus, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable, indeterminate, unsubstantial;
ghostly, phantom, spectral, wraithlike
rare nebulose
Derivatives
shadowiness
- This gray shadowiness is mixed sometimes with rain or mist shot by the cinematographer, Pierre Milon, through a greenish or turquoise filter, sometimes with snow that is photographed in deep-blue twilight.
- Here again, the shadowiness of an ‘event’ distinguishes it from a punishable ‘act’ and/or ‘actor.’