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shadow

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of shadow

1 partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays

the valley was in shadow

Synonyms of shadow

dusk, penumbra, shade, shadiness, umbra

Words Related to shadow

blackness, dimness, duskiness, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, obscurity, semidarkness, somberness

cloudiness

Near Antonyms of shadow

brightness, brilliance, effulgence, illumination, incandescence, light, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, radiance, radiancy

2 shadows plural a time or place of little or no light

lurking in the shadows

Synonyms of shadow

black, blackness, candlelight, dark, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, twilight, umbra

Words Related to shadow

midnight

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

half-light

Near Antonyms of shadow

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness

Antonyms of shadow

blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness

3 a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished

a run-down mansion that is only a shadow of its former glory

Synonyms of shadow

echo, ghost, relic, trace, vestige

Words Related to shadow

memento, remembrance, reminder

artifact

afterimage, aftertaste

balance, corpse, hangover, leftover, oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap

dreg(s), leavings, remain(s), residual, residue, rest

4 a very small amount

not even a shadow of a doubt about the defendantʼs guilt

Synonyms of shadow

ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace

Words Related to shadow

hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit

atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap

dash, drop, pinch

part, portion, section

bite, nibble, taste

handful, scattering, smatter, smattering

dose, shot

chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter

shred, tatter

clipping, paring, shaving

Phrases Synonymous with shadow

drop in the bucket

Near Antonyms of shadow

abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth

volume

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

chunk, hunk, lump, slab

5 the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

rumors of a shadow haunting the castle

Synonyms of shadow

apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

Words Related to shadow

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

lemures, manes

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

6 an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom

the husband's adulterous affair had cast over their marriage a shadow from which there was no escape

Synonyms of shadow

cloud, darkness, pall

Words Related to shadow

fog, haze, mist, murk, penumbra, umbra

midnight, night

mantle, shroud, veil

shadow

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of shadow

1 to go after or on the track of

shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to

Synonyms of shadow

bird-dog, chase, course, dog, follow, hound, pursue, run, tag, tail, trace, track, trail

Words Related to shadow

accompany, chaperone (or chaperon), escort

hunt, search (for), seek

eye, observe, watch

Phrases Synonymous with shadow

run after

Near Antonyms of shadow

head

Antonyms of shadow

guide, lead, pilot

2 to make dark, dim, or indistinct

thickening clouds shadowed the countryside

Synonyms of shadow

becloud, bedim, befog, blacken, blear, blur, cloud, darken, dim, dislimn, fog, fuzz (up), haze, mist, obscure, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shroud

Words Related to shadow

adumbrate, blot out, conceal, eclipse, hide, obliterate, screen, shade

camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, mask, veil

Near Antonyms of shadow

expose, reveal, uncover, unveil

Antonyms of shadow

brighten, illuminate, illumine, light (up), lighten

3 to shelter (something) from light and heat

a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches

Synonyms of shadow

shade

Words Related to shadow

cloud, darken, dim, dull, overcast, overshadow

canopy, cover, protect, screen

Near Antonyms of shadow

illuminate, light, lighten

expose

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