SHADOWY

shadowy. Shadowy, a. full of shade, gloomy, heavy, faint

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Shad″ow‐y (?), a. 1. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. “Shadowy verdure.” Fenton.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. “The shadowy past.” Longfellow.
3. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton. 4. 4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton. 5. 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.