shadowy
pronunciation
How to pronounce shadowy in British English:
UK [ˈʃædəʊi]
How to pronounce shadowy in American English:
US [ˈʃædoʊi]
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- Adjective:
- filled with shade
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking in substance
Word Origin
- shadowy (adj.)
- late 14c., shadewy, "full of shadows," also "transitory, fleeting, unreal;" see shadow (n.) + -y (2). From 1797 as "faintly perceptible." Related: Shadowiness. Old English had sceadwig "shady."
Example
- 1. Researchers have long argued over whether the moon contains water on its surface - frozen in shadowy craters , for instance .
- 2. Obama 's mother , who died in 1995 , has been , up to this point , largely a shadowy figure in his narrative .
- 3. This month a striking new statistic tumbled out of europe 's vast - but somewhat shadowy - leveraged loan sector .
- 4. Quantum mechanics , which describes in subatomic detail a shadowy world in which cats can be simultaneously alive and dead , is notoriously difficult to grasp .
- 5. Viewed from above , this vast swathe of land may not look like much fuzzy green vegetation , shadowy pockets of volcanic rock , incongruous veins of reddish brown soil but in a couple of years it will make history .