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say it: SHAD-oh-ee
shadowy is an adjective meaning "filled with shade". It is pronounced /ˈʃædoʊi/ — SHAD-oh-ee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
filled with shade
“the shady side of the street”
“the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed”
“we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove”
“cool umbrageous woodlands”
lacking clarity or distinctness
“a dim figure in the distance”
“only a faint recollection”
“shadowy figures in the gloom”
“saw a vague outline of a building through the fog”
“a few wispy memories of childhood”
lacking in substance
“strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds”
“dim shadowy forms”
“a wraithlike column of smoke”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shadowy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.