Word Meanings - SHADOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n.,

Additional info about word: SHADOW

1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. 2. Darkness; shade; obscurity. Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. Denham. 3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Spenser. 4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. Shak. 5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. Sin and her shadow Death. Milton. 6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. "Hence, horrible shadow!" Shak. 7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical reprresentation; type. The law having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. and shadows of that destined seed. Milton. 8. A small degree; a shade. "No variableness, neither shadow of turning." James i. 17. 9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHADOW)

• Adumbration
• Shadow
• foreshadowing
• presage
• prognostic
• delineation
• premonition
• hint
• sketch
• prototype
• suggestion
• Follow
• Pursue
• chase
• accompany
• obey
• Imitate
• succeed
• result
• ensue
• attend
• shadow
• observe
• copy
• Gloom
• Gloaming
• twilight
• obscurity
• obscuration
• dullness
• cloudiness
• cloud
• dejection
• sadness
• Image
• Statue
• likeness
• representation
• effigy
• metaphor
• idea
• conception
• fiction
• picture
• vision
• Satellite
• Attendant
• follower
• subordinate
• associate
• hanger-on
• second

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHADOW)

• Abandon
• relinquish
• discard
• dismiss
• avoid
• elude
• evade
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to SHADOW)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DULLNESS
  The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• CLOUD
  arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• SUCCEDANE
  A succedaneum.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.