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 shadowy 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.