Shād'ōw-y, a.
a. [A-S. scadwig, sceadwig, Ger. schattig. See SHADOW.]
Sense 1. Full of shade; serving to shade. “A shadowy hat.” W. Scott.
Sense 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy. “This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.” Shak.
Sense 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
More pleasant light Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton.
Sense 4. Faintly representative; typical. “Disciplined from shadowy types to truth.” Milton.
Sense 5. Unsubstantial; unreal.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison.