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Meaning of shadowy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shadowy
      adj 1: 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"
             [syn: {shady}, {shadowed}, {shadowy}, {umbrageous}]
      2: 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" [syn: {dim},
         {faint}, {shadowy}, {vague}, {wispy}]
      3: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy
         worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike
         column of smoke" [syn: {shadowy}, {wraithlike}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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