Synonyms for shadow
ˈʃæd oʊshad·ow

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1. shadow

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

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1. shadow

   Synonyms:
   umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom, attendant

   Antonyms:
   body, substance, materiality, form, principal

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1. shadownoun

   shade within clear boundaries

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, tail, apparition, dark, fantasm, phantom, shadower, vestige, tincture

2. darkness, dark, shadownoun

   an unilluminated area

   "he moved off into the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, fantasm, shadower, night, phantom, iniquity, tincture, dark, wickedness, trace, phantasm, vestige, darkness, swarthiness, tail, phantasma, duskiness, apparition

3. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadownoun

   something existing in perception only

   "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, apparition, specter, dark, shadower, tincture, fantasm, phantom, tail, vestige, spectre

4. shadownoun

   a premonition of something adverse

   "a shadow over his happiness"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, tail, apparition, dark, fantasm, phantom, shadower, vestige, tincture

5. trace, vestige, tincture, shadownoun

   an indication that something has been present

   "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

   Synonyms:
   touch, shade, phantom, ghost, tincture, fantasm, tint, tail, dark, hint, trace, phantasm, vestige, darkness, shadower, tone, phantasma, tracing, suggestion, apparition

6. shadownoun

   refuge from danger or observation

   "he felt secure in his father's shadow"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, tail, apparition, dark, fantasm, phantom, shadower, vestige, tincture

7. shadownoun

   a dominating and pervasive presence

   "he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, tail, apparition, dark, fantasm, phantom, shadower, vestige, tincture

8. tail, shadow, shadowernoun

   a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

   Synonyms:
   fanny, phantom, seat, butt, empennage, rear end, shadower, apparition, dark, can, nates, fundament, posterior, buttocks, behind, stern, bottom, backside, bum, vestige, tail assembly, tail, buns, phantasm, tincture, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, tooshie, fag end, fantasm, hind end, rump, keister, darkness, ass, prat, arse, quarter, rear, trace, tush, phantasma, after part, poop

9. shadowverb

   an inseparable companion

   "the poor child was his mother's shadow"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, tail, apparition, dark, fantasm, phantom, shadower, vestige, tincture

10. shadowverb

    follow, usually without the person's knowledge

    "The police are shadowing her"

    Synonyms:
    dwarf, shade off, overshadow, shade

11. shadow, shade, shade offverb

    cast a shadow over

    Synonyms:
    dwarf, fill in, shade off, overshadow, shade

12. shadow, overshadow, dwarfverb

    make appear small by comparison

    "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"

    Synonyms:
    dwarf, eclipse, dominate, shade off, overshadow, shade

Matched Categories

1. • Follow
   • Follower
   • Foreboding
   • Indication
   • Presence
   • Recourse
   • Scene
   • Shade
   • Spy

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1. shadownoun

   Synonyms:
   shade

2. shadownoun

   Synonyms:
   darkness, obscurity, gloom

3. shadownoun

   Synonyms:
   shelter, cover, protection, security

4. shadownoun

   Synonyms:
   type, image, adumbration, representation

5. shadowverb

   Synonyms:
   shade

6. shadowverb

   Synonyms:
   darken, obscure, cloud

7. shadowverb

   Synonyms:
   typify, SHADOW FORTH, adumbrate

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1. shadownoun

   Synonyms:
   shade, darkness, penumbra, adumbration, prefiguration

   Associated words:
   sciagraphy, sciomachy, periscian, silhouette, sciomancy

2. shadowverb

   Synonyms:
   shade, screen, adumbrate, typify, symbolize, cloud, obscure

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1. List of paraphrases for "shadow":

   shade, shadows, alternative, sombra, grayling, fictional, shading, notional, parallel, ghost, alternate, shred, grey, darkness, snapshots, dark, snapshot

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1. C. S. Lewis:

   Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

2. Jane Fonda:

   I grew up in the shadow of a national monument.

3. Danielle Foltz:

   How do you find the words to describe the most horrific event in your life, your personal valley of the shadow of death ? because that is exactly the feeling that clamps your heart when you are at a place where the medication needed to rescue your child is out of reach.

4. Charles Lamb:

   A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

5. Nathan Gonzales:

   Trump is the shadow that has been cast over dozens of races in this county. the question is how dark will it be.