Definition of shadowy in English:

shadowy

adjectiveshadowier, shadowiest ˈʃadəʊiˈʃædoʊi

1Full of shadows.
a long, shadowy, cobbled passage
一条多荫的鹅卵石长通道。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their music hints at shadowy cobbled backstreets in Buenos Aires, the elegant couples dancing while democracies are toppled and the memory of tango as its one great export.
- A solid sound design as well as shadowy lighting achieve the scariest effects of the film.
- Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery.
- Thin beams of intense, orange light striped the otherwise shadowy walls of my bedroom from my window.
- The entries off High Street offer shadowy potential and an historical dimension, as do the old Courthouse steps.
- He kept one hand on the antique handgun holstered on his hip as he half-walked, half-ran along the shadowy street.
- The forest in which Paloma's cottage resided was rather shadowy and creepy during the night.
- There were two lamps hanging from the ceiling near the door that gave the place a strange shadowy glow.
- Gone are the shadowy streets of Manhattan, skyscrapers blotting out the sun like overseers to the perversion playing out below.
- It was dark and shadowy, so not much could be seen.
- His hair is a shadowy shade of black and his eyes are a dark brown, nearly black.
- Every frame is razor-sharp, even in dark, shadowy scenes.
- The two droids stopped in the middle of the shadowy passage.
- The rain had lessened to a drizzle, and an eerie, shadowy mist hung around the trees.
- The most powerful image was of a dark, shadowy, dangerous city.
- He was still staring off down the shadowy street.
- I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees.
- These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place.
- The center of the dome was clearly retractable, as it was partially opened at the moment to afford more light for the otherwise shadowy room.
- Marissa eyes flitted about at the shadowy woodland, an eerie sense of foreboding beginning to permeate the air.
Synonyms
dark, dim, gloomy, murky
shady, shaded, sunless
literary tenebrous, crepuscular
rare tenebrious, umbrageous, umbrose, umbriferous, umbrous, caliginous, Cimmerian
1. 1.1 Of uncertain identity or nature.
  模糊的；朦胧的
  a shadowy figure appeared through the mist
  薄雾中出现了一个模糊的身影。
  the shadowy world of covert operations
  隐蔽活动的朣朦世界。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She started to run away from the man only to be blocked by shadowy figures that suddenly appeared in front of her.
  Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures.
  It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene.
  Katherine stood frozen in the spot, staring awestruck once more at the shadowy figure, which now appeared to be watching them.
  The men in this novel are mostly shadowy figures who seem to appear at the right moment to fill out a necessary niche.
  Benn speaks as he thinks and does not worry about being on-message or about the reactions of shadowy press officer figures lurking offstage.
  It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room.
  Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room.
  In the silence of the next few moments no one noticed the two shadowy figures that appeared in the jagged opening of the room.
  The shadowy stranger I'm entertaining begins to finger the fabric.
  In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character.
  Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason.
  Bart is not trapped in a maze with no exit; he is not tirelessly hounded by shadowy criminals or mysterious forces beyond his control.
  Polonius becomes a shadowy figure, though he is openly identified as Claudius's co-conspirator in the murder of Hamlet's father.
  At last, some light has been shed on the shadowy subject of identity theft and how the finance industry and its regulators can fight it.
  Beyond one shadowy figure, never identified, no other suspect was ever turned up.
  The shadowy stranger struggled to get free but could not.
  Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world.
  A spotlight appeared on all four screens and a shadowy figure walked into it.
  Throughout the first act, Wilfrid periodically addresses the shadowy figure of the ‘judge’ who will decide whether he may transport the body.
  Synonyms
  indistinct, hazy, indefinite, lacking definition, out of focus, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable, indeterminate, unsubstantial
  ghostly, phantom, spectral, wraithlike
  rare nebulose
2. 1.2 Insubstantial; unreal.
  虚无的；虚幻的
  they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms
  他们遭到了一大群虚无缥缈的影子的攻击。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But instead, through his interaction with Keel, it takes him to places shadowy and frightening.
  This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light.
  Curtains of silk and lace in black and red hung from the ceiling, giving the room a shadowy and ethereal feel.
  Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
  She barely had time to wonder about this strange shadowy beast before it lunged and she had a better view than she wanted of its many white teeth.

Derivatives

shadowiness

noun

This gray shadowiness is mixed sometimes with rain or mist shot by the cinematographer, Pierre Milon, through a greenish or turquoise filter, sometimes with snow that is photographed in deep-blue twilight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Here again, the shadowiness of an ‘event’ distinguishes it from a punishable ‘act’ and/or ‘actor.’

Definition of shadowy in US English:

shadowy

adjectiveˈSHadōēˈʃædoʊi

1Full of shadows.
the shadowy back streets of Stringtown
Example sentencesExamples
- Gone are the shadowy streets of Manhattan, skyscrapers blotting out the sun like overseers to the perversion playing out below.
- The rain had lessened to a drizzle, and an eerie, shadowy mist hung around the trees.
- Thin beams of intense, orange light striped the otherwise shadowy walls of my bedroom from my window.
- He kept one hand on the antique handgun holstered on his hip as he half-walked, half-ran along the shadowy street.
- Their music hints at shadowy cobbled backstreets in Buenos Aires, the elegant couples dancing while democracies are toppled and the memory of tango as its one great export.
- He was still staring off down the shadowy street.
- The two droids stopped in the middle of the shadowy passage.
- These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place.
- Marissa eyes flitted about at the shadowy woodland, an eerie sense of foreboding beginning to permeate the air.
- I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees.
- There were two lamps hanging from the ceiling near the door that gave the place a strange shadowy glow.
- The most powerful image was of a dark, shadowy, dangerous city.
- A solid sound design as well as shadowy lighting achieve the scariest effects of the film.
- The center of the dome was clearly retractable, as it was partially opened at the moment to afford more light for the otherwise shadowy room.
- Every frame is razor-sharp, even in dark, shadowy scenes.
- It was dark and shadowy, so not much could be seen.
- Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery.
- The forest in which Paloma's cottage resided was rather shadowy and creepy during the night.
- The entries off High Street offer shadowy potential and an historical dimension, as do the old Courthouse steps.
- His hair is a shadowy shade of black and his eyes are a dark brown, nearly black.
Synonyms
dark, dim, gloomy, murky
1. 1.1 Of uncertain identity or nature.
  模糊的；朦胧的
  a shadowy figure appeared through the mist
  薄雾中出现了一个模糊的身影。
  the shadowy world of covert operations
  隐蔽活动的朣朦世界。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beyond one shadowy figure, never identified, no other suspect was ever turned up.
  The shadowy stranger I'm entertaining begins to finger the fabric.
  Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world.
  The shadowy stranger struggled to get free but could not.
  Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason.
  Polonius becomes a shadowy figure, though he is openly identified as Claudius's co-conspirator in the murder of Hamlet's father.
  Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room.
  Benn speaks as he thinks and does not worry about being on-message or about the reactions of shadowy press officer figures lurking offstage.
  A spotlight appeared on all four screens and a shadowy figure walked into it.
  It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room.
  It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene.
  The men in this novel are mostly shadowy figures who seem to appear at the right moment to fill out a necessary niche.
  Bart is not trapped in a maze with no exit; he is not tirelessly hounded by shadowy criminals or mysterious forces beyond his control.
  In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character.
  Throughout the first act, Wilfrid periodically addresses the shadowy figure of the ‘judge’ who will decide whether he may transport the body.
  At last, some light has been shed on the shadowy subject of identity theft and how the finance industry and its regulators can fight it.
  In the silence of the next few moments no one noticed the two shadowy figures that appeared in the jagged opening of the room.
  Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures.
  She started to run away from the man only to be blocked by shadowy figures that suddenly appeared in front of her.
  Katherine stood frozen in the spot, staring awestruck once more at the shadowy figure, which now appeared to be watching them.
  Synonyms
  indistinct, hazy, indefinite, lacking definition, out of focus, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable, indeterminate, unsubstantial
2. 1.2 Insubstantial; unreal.
  虚无的；虚幻的
  they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms
  他们遭到了一大群虚无缥缈的影子的攻击。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She barely had time to wonder about this strange shadowy beast before it lunged and she had a better view than she wanted of its many white teeth.
  But instead, through his interaction with Keel, it takes him to places shadowy and frightening.
  Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
  Curtains of silk and lace in black and red hung from the ceiling, giving the room a shadowy and ethereal feel.
  This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light.

词汇	shadowy
释义	Definition of shadowy in English: shadowy adjectiveshadowier, shadowiest ˈʃadəʊiˈʃædoʊi 1Full of shadows. a long, shadowy, cobbled passage 一条多荫的鹅卵石长通道。 Example sentencesExamples Their music hints at shadowy cobbled backstreets in Buenos Aires, the elegant couples dancing while democracies are toppled and the memory of tango as its one great export. A solid sound design as well as shadowy lighting achieve the scariest effects of the film. Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery. Thin beams of intense, orange light striped the otherwise shadowy walls of my bedroom from my window. The entries off High Street offer shadowy potential and an historical dimension, as do the old Courthouse steps. He kept one hand on the antique handgun holstered on his hip as he half-walked, half-ran along the shadowy street. The forest in which Paloma's cottage resided was rather shadowy and creepy during the night. There were two lamps hanging from the ceiling near the door that gave the place a strange shadowy glow. Gone are the shadowy streets of Manhattan, skyscrapers blotting out the sun like overseers to the perversion playing out below. It was dark and shadowy, so not much could be seen. His hair is a shadowy shade of black and his eyes are a dark brown, nearly black. Every frame is razor-sharp, even in dark, shadowy scenes. The two droids stopped in the middle of the shadowy passage. The rain had lessened to a drizzle, and an eerie, shadowy mist hung around the trees. The most powerful image was of a dark, shadowy, dangerous city. He was still staring off down the shadowy street. I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees. These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place. The center of the dome was clearly retractable, as it was partially opened at the moment to afford more light for the otherwise shadowy room. Marissa eyes flitted about at the shadowy woodland, an eerie sense of foreboding beginning to permeate the air. Synonyms dark, dim, gloomy, murky shady, shaded, sunless literary tenebrous, crepuscular rare tenebrious, umbrageous, umbrose, umbriferous, umbrous, caliginous, Cimmerian 1.1 Of uncertain identity or nature. 模糊的；朦胧的 a shadowy figure appeared through the mist 薄雾中出现了一个模糊的身影。 the shadowy world of covert operations 隐蔽活动的朣朦世界。 Example sentencesExamples She started to run away from the man only to be blocked by shadowy figures that suddenly appeared in front of her. Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures. It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene. Katherine stood frozen in the spot, staring awestruck once more at the shadowy figure, which now appeared to be watching them. The men in this novel are mostly shadowy figures who seem to appear at the right moment to fill out a necessary niche. Benn speaks as he thinks and does not worry about being on-message or about the reactions of shadowy press officer figures lurking offstage. It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room. Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room. In the silence of the next few moments no one noticed the two shadowy figures that appeared in the jagged opening of the room. The shadowy stranger I'm entertaining begins to finger the fabric. In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character. Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason. Bart is not trapped in a maze with no exit; he is not tirelessly hounded by shadowy criminals or mysterious forces beyond his control. Polonius becomes a shadowy figure, though he is openly identified as Claudius's co-conspirator in the murder of Hamlet's father. At last, some light has been shed on the shadowy subject of identity theft and how the finance industry and its regulators can fight it. Beyond one shadowy figure, never identified, no other suspect was ever turned up. The shadowy stranger struggled to get free but could not. Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world. A spotlight appeared on all four screens and a shadowy figure walked into it. Throughout the first act, Wilfrid periodically addresses the shadowy figure of the ‘judge’ who will decide whether he may transport the body. Synonyms indistinct, hazy, indefinite, lacking definition, out of focus, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable, indeterminate, unsubstantial ghostly, phantom, spectral, wraithlike rare nebulose 1.2 Insubstantial; unreal. 虚无的；虚幻的 they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms 他们遭到了一大群虚无缥缈的影子的攻击。 Example sentencesExamples But instead, through his interaction with Keel, it takes him to places shadowy and frightening. This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light. Curtains of silk and lace in black and red hung from the ceiling, giving the room a shadowy and ethereal feel. Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. She barely had time to wonder about this strange shadowy beast before it lunged and she had a better view than she wanted of its many white teeth. Derivatives shadowiness noun This gray shadowiness is mixed sometimes with rain or mist shot by the cinematographer, Pierre Milon, through a greenish or turquoise filter, sometimes with snow that is photographed in deep-blue twilight. Example sentencesExamples Here again, the shadowiness of an ‘event’ distinguishes it from a punishable ‘act’ and/or ‘actor.’ Definition of shadowy in US English: shadowy adjectiveˈSHadōēˈʃædoʊi 1Full of shadows. the shadowy back streets of Stringtown Example sentencesExamples Gone are the shadowy streets of Manhattan, skyscrapers blotting out the sun like overseers to the perversion playing out below. The rain had lessened to a drizzle, and an eerie, shadowy mist hung around the trees. Thin beams of intense, orange light striped the otherwise shadowy walls of my bedroom from my window. He kept one hand on the antique handgun holstered on his hip as he half-walked, half-ran along the shadowy street. Their music hints at shadowy cobbled backstreets in Buenos Aires, the elegant couples dancing while democracies are toppled and the memory of tango as its one great export. He was still staring off down the shadowy street. The two droids stopped in the middle of the shadowy passage. These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place. Marissa eyes flitted about at the shadowy woodland, an eerie sense of foreboding beginning to permeate the air. I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees. There were two lamps hanging from the ceiling near the door that gave the place a strange shadowy glow. The most powerful image was of a dark, shadowy, dangerous city. A solid sound design as well as shadowy lighting achieve the scariest effects of the film. The center of the dome was clearly retractable, as it was partially opened at the moment to afford more light for the otherwise shadowy room. Every frame is razor-sharp, even in dark, shadowy scenes. It was dark and shadowy, so not much could be seen. Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery. The forest in which Paloma's cottage resided was rather shadowy and creepy during the night. The entries off High Street offer shadowy potential and an historical dimension, as do the old Courthouse steps. His hair is a shadowy shade of black and his eyes are a dark brown, nearly black. Synonyms dark, dim, gloomy, murky 1.1 Of uncertain identity or nature. 模糊的；朦胧的 a shadowy figure appeared through the mist 薄雾中出现了一个模糊的身影。 the shadowy world of covert operations 隐蔽活动的朣朦世界。 Example sentencesExamples Beyond one shadowy figure, never identified, no other suspect was ever turned up. The shadowy stranger I'm entertaining begins to finger the fabric. Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world. The shadowy stranger struggled to get free but could not. Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason. Polonius becomes a shadowy figure, though he is openly identified as Claudius's co-conspirator in the murder of Hamlet's father. Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room. Benn speaks as he thinks and does not worry about being on-message or about the reactions of shadowy press officer figures lurking offstage. A spotlight appeared on all four screens and a shadowy figure walked into it. It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room. It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene. The men in this novel are mostly shadowy figures who seem to appear at the right moment to fill out a necessary niche. Bart is not trapped in a maze with no exit; he is not tirelessly hounded by shadowy criminals or mysterious forces beyond his control. In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character. Throughout the first act, Wilfrid periodically addresses the shadowy figure of the ‘judge’ who will decide whether he may transport the body. At last, some light has been shed on the shadowy subject of identity theft and how the finance industry and its regulators can fight it. In the silence of the next few moments no one noticed the two shadowy figures that appeared in the jagged opening of the room. Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures. She started to run away from the man only to be blocked by shadowy figures that suddenly appeared in front of her. Katherine stood frozen in the spot, staring awestruck once more at the shadowy figure, which now appeared to be watching them. Synonyms indistinct, hazy, indefinite, lacking definition, out of focus, vague, nebulous, ill-defined, faint, blurred, blurry, unclear, indistinguishable, unrecognizable, indeterminate, unsubstantial 1.2 Insubstantial; unreal. 虚无的；虚幻的 they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms 他们遭到了一大群虚无缥缈的影子的攻击。 Example sentencesExamples She barely had time to wonder about this strange shadowy beast before it lunged and she had a better view than she wanted of its many white teeth. But instead, through his interaction with Keel, it takes him to places shadowy and frightening. Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. Curtains of silk and lace in black and red hung from the ceiling, giving the room a shadowy and ethereal feel. This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light.
随便看	shut someone in shut someone out shut someone/something away shut someone/something away shut someone/something in shut someone/something in shut someone/something out shut someone/something out shut someone up shut something away shut something down shut something in shut something off shut something out shut something up shut something up shut sth away shut sth down shut sth in shut sth off shut sth out shut sth up shuttable shutter shutterbug