[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

shadowy \shad"owy\, a.
   1. full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
      "shadowy verdure." --fenton.
      1913 webster

            this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "the shadowy past."
      --longfellow.
      1913 webster

   3. not brightly luminous; faintly light.
      1913 webster

            the moon . . . with more pleasing light,
            shadowy sets off the face things.     --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. faintly representative; hence, typical.
      1913 webster

            from shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
                                                  --milton.
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   5. unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
      1913 webster

            milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
            shadowy
            and fictitious nature, in the persons of sin and
            death.                                --addison.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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, 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, 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: wraithlike
see also:
shady shadowed umbrageous dim faint vague 
wispy wraithlike 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

167 moby thesaurus words for "shadowy":
   air-built, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, asomatous, astral,
   blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, bodiless,
   bosky, bowery, broad, cadaverous, chance, chancy, chaotic,
   chimerical, clear as mud, cloud-built, cloudy, confused,
   corpselike, dark, darkling, deathlike, decarnate, decarnated, dim,
   discarnate, disembodied, disordered, dreamlike, dusky, ectoplasmic,
   ethereal, etheric, extramundane, faint, fancied, fanciful,
   fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, filmy, fleeting, foggy, fuzzy, gaseous,
   general, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, gloomy, gossamery,
   half-seen, half-visible, hallucinatory, hazy, hit-or-miss,
   ill-defined, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable,
   imponderable, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent,
   inconspicuous, incorporate, incorporeal, indecisive, indefinable,
   indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct,
   indistinguishable, inexact, insubstantial, intangible, lax, leafy,
   loose, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous,
   nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonspecific, notional, obscure,
   obumbrate, obumbrated, occult, opaque, orderless, otherworldly,
   out of focus, overshaded, overshadowed, pale, penumbral,
   phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, psychic,
   random, rarefied, semivisible, shaded, shadow, shadowed forth,
   shady, shapeless, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, spirituous,
   stochastic, subtile, subtle, supernatural, sweeping, tenuous,
   transcendent, transitory, transmundane, umbral, uncertain, unclear,
   undefined, undestined, undetermined, unearthly, unembodied,
   unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unplain, unreal, unrecognizable,
   unspecified, unsubstantial, unworldly, vague, vaporous, veiled,
   visionary, weak, windy, wraithlike, wraithy

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