| 单词 | shadowy |
| 释义 | shadowy (once / 616 pages) adj The adjective shadowy is good for describing things that are mysterious or hard to see, like a dim figure in the fog or the social rules of a typical middle school. Indistinct or faint objects are shadowy, whether they're distant people standing in a dark alley or birds you can barely see against the choppy surface of the ocean. You can also describe something that's ghostly or unreal as shadowy. A shadowy room or a shadowy figure brushing past you would both be insubstantial and vaguely spooky. The root of shadowy is the Old English word sceadu, "shade, shadow, or darkness." WORD FAMILYshadowy: shadowily, shadowiness+/foreshadow: foreshadowed, foreshadowing, foreshadows/foreshadowing: foreshadowings/overshadow: overshadowed, overshadowing, overshadows/shadow: foreshadow, overshadow, shadowed, shadower, shadowing, shadows, shadowy/shadowed: unshadowed/shadower: shadowers/shadowing: shadowings USAGE EXAMPLESA minute into a monitoring round on recent morning, the shadowy shapes of six turtles jetted across a reef. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Instead, we keep seeing the same vague flashes of flames and shadowy figures. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The shadowy forms imply the rest of the forest, as well as what’s beyond. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj filled with shade we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove Syn shadowed, shady, umbrageous shaded protected from heat and light with shade or shadow 2adj lacking clarity or distinctness shadowy figures in the gloom Syn dim, faint, vague, wispy indistinct not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand 3adj lacking in substance "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler dim shadowy forms Syn wraithlike insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial lacking material form or substance; unreal |
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