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Adjective shadowy has 3 senses
- shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous - 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"
Antonym: unshaded (indirect, via shaded)
- dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy - 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"
Antonym: distinct (indirect, via indistinct)
- shadowy, wraithlike - lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
Antonyms: substantial, real, material (indirect, via insubstantial)
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