SHADOWLIKE Synonyms: 119 Similar and Opposite Words

shadowlike

adjective

Definition of shadowlike

as in shadowy

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Adjective

The series follows Yusuke Nogi, a Japanese trading company employee drawn into an international conspiracy tied to a shadowy government intelligence unit known as Beppan.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Today, as described in a recent analysis in Foreign Affairs, the Houthis are harnessing diversified supply chains and shadowy financial networks while building up domestic production capacity.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of shadowy

Adjective

Even on a good day, Michigan is not a program that inspires many warm and fuzzy feelings among casual fans of college football.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Film Festival world premiere offering warm-but-never-fuzzy retro visions of stunts and cross-border tension that resonate in the present moment.

— Jennie Punter, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of fuzzy

Adjective

Meanwhile, her cheeks and lips were accented with a faint swipe of peach blush and rose gloss, and her lashes were coated in black mascara, giving the overall look a refined appeal.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
Even as their faint rally began to flourish in the eighth inning, there was no credible reason to believe the ending would be any different this time.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of faint

Adjective

The floating schools were a response to a longstanding local problem of seasonal floods and impassable, muddy roads that kept children from reaching conventional schools.

— Ali Asif Shawon, NPR, 5 Sep. 2026
Half-dead and dragging himself on his belly through a muddy field, Eddie is far from the calm, affable aristocrat audiences first met in Season 1.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of muddy

Adjective

That separation helps explain how uncertain the market remains — even to veteran coaches.

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
But take the owner out of the equation, and the loyal customers stop coming, while the accounts become uncertain overnight.

— Jason Sisneros, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of uncertain

Adjective

By early afternoon, the scene shifts across the shaded wooden deck, as guests slip in from the jetty barefoot and still damp from the sea, for long, languid lunches that roll into dusk.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
Other approaches are scorched stretches of concrete begging to become soft, shaded connectors.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of shaded

Adjective

Yet cycling’s code of ethics is both large and indistinct; the scale of Pogačar’s dominance threatens its traditions.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026
There, a holiday somewhere hot and indistinct, the only clear memory compressed into the feeling of rough grains of sand studding her feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of indistinct

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