English-Thai Dictionary
shadowy
ADJ คล้าย เงา มี ร่มเงา ไม่ชัด เจน สลัว มืดมัว dim cloudy klai-ngo
shadowy
ADJ ลึกลับ น่าสงสัย clear luek-lab
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SHADOWY
a. 1. Full of shade; dark; gloomy.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.
2. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
More pleasant light
Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton.
3. Faintly representative; typical; as shadowy expiations.
4. Unsubstantial; unreal.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison.
5. Dark; obscure; opake.
By command ere yet dim night
Her shadowy cloud withdraws. Milton.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SHADOWY
SHADOWY Shad "ow *y, a.
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure. " Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.
2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past. " Longfellow.
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 sshadowy 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
shadowy
shad ow y |ˈSHadōē ˈʃædoʊi | ▶adjective ( shadowier, shadowiest ) full of shadows: the shadowy back streets of Stringtown. • of uncertain identity or nature: a shadowy figure appeared through the mist | the shadowy world of covert operations. • insubstantial; unreal: they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms. DERIVATIVES shad ow i ness noun
Oxford Dictionary
shadowy
shad |owy |ˈʃadəʊi | ▶adjective ( shadowier, shadowiest ) full of shadows: a long, shadowy, cobbled passage. • of uncertain identity or nature: a shadowy figure appeared through the mist | the shadowy world of covert operations. DERIVATIVES shadowiness noun
American Oxford Thesaurus
shadowy
shadowy adjective 1 a shadowy corridor: dark, dim, gloomy, murky, crepuscular, shady, shaded; literary tenebrous. ANTONYMS bright. 2 a shadowy figure: indistinct, hazy, indefinite, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable; ghostly, spectral, wraithlike. ANTONYMS clear.
Oxford Thesaurus
shadowy
shadowy adjective 1 a long shadowy corridor | the shadowy garden: dark, dim, gloomy, murky; shady, shaded, sunless; literary tenebrous, crepuscular; rare tenebrious, umbrageous, umbrose, umbriferous, umbrous, caliginous, Cimmerian. ANTONYMS bright, sunny. 2 a shadowy figure appeared through the mist: 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. ANTONYMS distinct, clear.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
shadowy
shad ow y /ʃǽdoʊi /→shadow 形容詞 -ier ; -iest 1 〈活動 人などが 〉神秘に包まれた , なぞの (mysterious )▸ a shadowy figure なぞの多い人物 2 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗陰の多い , 陰で暗い 〈人 物 〉; 暗くて [霧に包まれて ]見えにくい 〈人 物 〉; (影のように )ぼんやりした .3 現実性の乏しい .sh á d ow i ness 名詞