SHADOWY

adj. 1 dark, shady, bowery, leafy, shaded, gloomy, dusky, dim, Literary bosky The hotel bar was a shadowy place with pink lights on the tables 2 vague, dim, dark, obscure, faint, indistinct, indefinite, hazy, ill-defined, unclear, indeterminate The photograph was too shadowy for us to identify anyone in it The years before he came to London are part of his shadowy past. 3 spectral, ghostly, phantom, phantasmal, wraithlike, phantasmagoric(al), illusory, dreamlike, imaginary, visionary, chimerical, hallucinatory, unreal, unsubstantial, fleeting, impalpable, transitory, ethereal, immaterial He saw shadowy figures lurking near the tomb The plaintiff's case is shadowy, to say the least. 4 See shady, 2, below.