shadowy
adjective/ˈʃædəʊi/
/ˈʃædəʊi/
- dark and full of shadows
- Someone was waiting in the shadowy doorway.
- The candle blew out, plunging the room into a shadowy darkness.
- The bar was a shadowy place with orange lights on the tables.
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- [usually before noun] difficult to see because there is not much light
- Shadowy figures approached them out of the fog.
- [usually before noun] that not much is known about
- the shadowy world of terrorism
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