From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shadowy \Shad"ow*y\, a.
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
"Shadowy verdure." --Fenton.
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This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. --Shak.
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2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past."
--Longfellow.
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3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
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The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things. --Milton.
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4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
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From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
--Milton.
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5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
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Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and
Death. --Addison.
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