shadowy

shadowy is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
2. adjective. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
3. adjective. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
4. adjective. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
5. adjective. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
6. adjective. filled with shade

   "the shady side of the street"

   "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"

   Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous

7. adjective. lacking in substance- W.A.Butler

   "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"

   "dim shadowy forms"

   Synonyms: wraithlike

8. adjective. lacking clarity or distinctness

   "a dim figure in the distance"

   "only a faint recollection"

   Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy

Synonyms

shadowed, shady, umbrageous, wraithlike, dim, faint, vague, wispy

Common word forms

shadowier, shadowily, shadowiest

Words from these letters

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