Synonyms for shadowed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shad-ohd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃæd oʊd

Top 10 synonyms for shadowed

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Définition of shadowed

Origin : Old English sceadwe, sceaduwe "the effect of interception of sunlight, dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and a source of light," oblique cases ("to the," "from the," "of the," "in the") of sceadu (see shade (n.)). Shadow is to shade (n.) as meadow is to mead (n.2). Cf. Old Saxon skado, Middle Dutch schaeduwe, Dutch schaduw, Old High German scato, German schatten, Gothic skadus "shadow, shade."
From mid-13c. as "darkened area created by shadows, shade." From early 13c. in sense "anything unreal;" mid-14c. as "a ghost;" late 14c. as "a foreshadowing, prefiguration." Meaning "imitation, copy" is from 1690s. Sense of "the faintest trace" is from 1580s; that of "a spy who follows" is from 1859.
As a designation of members of an opposition party chosen as counterparts of the government in power, it is recorded from 1906. Shadow of Death (c.1200) translates Vulgate umbra mortis (Ps. xxiii:4, etc.), which itself translates Greek skia thanatou, perhaps a mistranslation of a Hebrew word for "intense darkness." In "Beowulf," Gendel is a sceadugenga, a shadow-goer, and another word for "darkness" is sceaduhelm. To be afraid of one's (own) shadow "be very timorous" is from 1580s.

verb make dark
verb follow secretly

Example sentences :

"I'm afraid not," she said, with a smile of shadowed sadness.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

I did not recognise my eyes, accustomed as I was to see them shadowed by my hair.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Leave them as part of a cruel, evil, shadowed time, which must be put behind us.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

His life was shadowed by suspicions of his wife, with whom he constantly quarrelled.
Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson

There were thousands like her because of their shadowed inheritance.
Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan

Minky looked up from the letter again, and his eyes were shadowed.
Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum

Wilson caught an eager look from the shadowed face of the girl.
Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett

She had the house to herself; it was cool and shadowed from the sun.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

What tragedy had shadowed the customary gladness of the last day of school?
Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott

Don't you know that I've been shadowed these last three months?
Extract from : « The Fugitive (Third Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy

Antonyms for shadowed

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