Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shadowy
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ædoʊi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • Shadowy vistas of sylvan beauty
  • "You speak of a form," he said, "a shadowy outline.
  • Night in June on the northern prairie is but the shadowy twilight between two long days.
  • What this is'--he glanced, with head bent, across the shadowy stones, 'is pretty evident.
  • The great personage rose heavily, an imposing shadowy form in the greenish gloom of the room.
  • Her dark eyes peered anxiously around the big shadowy room, lighted only by her flickering taper.
  • The old authors shrunk back into their picture-frames, and hung in shadowy solemnity along the walls.
  • Even the figures of the baleful group were there, though dimly seen as through a veil--a shadowy veil.
  • Grace looked all about the room and then closed the door, not seeing a little figure crouching in a shadowy corner.
  • Above it the cross already draped in the dark mists of the borderland was shadowy and more awful in shape and size.