Full of shade; dark; gloomy. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.

Not brightly luminous; faintly light. More pleasant light . Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton.

Faintly representative; typical; as shadowy expiations.

Unsubstantial; unreal. Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death.

Dark; obscure; opake. By command ere yet dim night . Her shadowy cloud withdraws. Milton.