1 dark and full of shadows:
Someone was waiting in the shadowy doorway. * The candle blew out, plunging the room into a shadowy darkness.
2 [usuallybeforenoun] difficult to see because there is not much light:
Shadowy figures approached them out of the fog.
3 [usuallybeforenoun] that not much is known about
SYNMYSTERIOUS:
the shadowy world of terrorism
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shadowy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shadowy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shadowy is tagged as adjective.
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