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shadow - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | cover, dark, dusk, gloom, obscurity, protection, shade, shelter, umbrage, adumbration, dimness, obscuration, penumbra, umbra |
| Antonyms: | brightness, light |
| Main Entry: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dark |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, cloud, darken, dim, gray, haze, obscure, overcast, overhang, overshadow, screen, shade, shelter, shield, umbrage, veil, cast a shadow, inumbrate, overcloud |
| Antonyms: | brighten, lighten |
| Main Entry: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hint, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | breath, intimation, memento, relic, smack, suspicion, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, vestige |
| Antonyms: | information |
| Main Entry: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | follow secretly |
| Synonyms: | dog, pursue, stalk, tag, tail, trail, watch, keep in sight, spy on |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blacken, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down*, cloud over, cloud up, make dim |
| Antonyms: | brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | investigator of crime |
| Synonyms: | agent, analyst, bull*, cop, eavesdropper, eye*, fink*, gumshoe*, informer, police officer, private eye, reporter, scout, shadow*, sleuth, snoop*, spy, tail*, P. I., Sherlock Holmes, bird dog, bloodhound, constable, dick, fed, flatfoot, nark, peeper, plainclothes officer, private investigator, prosecutor, roper, sergeant, shamus, shoofly, slewfoot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chase after; bother |
| Synonyms: | haunt, hound, plague, pursue, shadow, tag, tail, track, trail, trouble, bedog |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, let go |
| Main Entry: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, be in the wind, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | hide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal; remain unseen |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain*, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, harbor, hold back, hole up*, hush up, mask, obscure, plant, protect, reserve, salt away*, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, stifle, suppress, veil, withhold, blot out, go into hiding, go underground, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, not give away, not tell, put out of the way, squirrel, stash, stow away, take cover, tuck away |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask, lay bare, let out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; indicate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, adumbrate, advise, allude to, angle, apprise, bring up, broach, coax, connote, cue, drop, expose, fish*, foreshadow, give an inkling, impart, imply, infer, inform, insinuate, intimate, jog memory, leak*, let it be known, let out of bag, make*, mention, point, prefigure, press, prompt, put flea in ear, recall, refer to, remind, say in passing, shadow, signify, solicit, spring, tip off, tip one's hand, touch on*, whisper, wink* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intimation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clue, hint |
| Synonyms: | allusion, announcement, breath, communication, cue, declaration, implication, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, notice, notion, reminder, shade, shadow, strain, streak, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tinge, tip, trace, warning, wind |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole*, bony, emaciated, gangling, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lanky, meager, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stringy, svelte, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn, gangly, lank, no fat, scraggy, stilt, sylphlike, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minimum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lowest amount |
| Synonyms: | atom, bottom, dab, depth, dot, gleam, grain, hair, iota, jot, least, lowest, margin, modicum, molecule, nadir, particle, pittance, point, scintilla, scruple, shadow, smidgen, soupçon, spark, speck, trifle, whit, narrowest, slightest, smallest |
| Antonyms: | maximum, most, largest |
| Main Entry: | nuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slight difference; shading |
| Synonyms: | dash, degree, distinction, gradation, hint, implication, nicety, refinement, shade, shadow, soupçon, subtlety, suggestion, suspicion, tinge, touch, trace |
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, hide |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, belie, blear, blind, block, block out, blur, camouflage, cloak, cloud, con, confuse, cover, darken, dim, disguise, double-talk*, eclipse, equivocate, falsify, fog, fuzz, gloom, gray, haze, mask, misrepresent, mist, muddy, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, stonewall*, veil, wrap, befog, cloud the issue, cover up, muddy the waters, overcloud, pettifog, throw up smoke screen |
| Antonyms: | illuminate, loose, reveal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make obscure, dim, vague |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, cloud, command, darken, dim, dominate, dwarf, eclipse, excel, govern, haze, obfuscate, outshine, outweigh, overcast, rule, shadow, surpass, veil, leave in the shade, overcloud, overweigh, preponderate, rise above, steal spotlight, take precedence, tower above |
| Main Entry: | pall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloud, gloom |
| Synonyms: | cloak, cloth, covering, damp, damper, dismay, mantle, melancholy, shadow, shroud, veil |
| Antonyms: | brightness, excitement, happiness |
| Main Entry: | phantom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost; figment of the imagination |
| Synonyms: | apparition, chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, phantasm, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, vision, wraith, eidolon, ignis fatuus |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | setting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scene, background |
| Synonyms: | ambience, backdrop, context, distance, environment, frame, framework, horizon, jungle, locale, location, perspective, set, shade, shadow, site, stage setting, surroundings, mise en scène, mounting, stage set |
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