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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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