shadyadj.

Brit.

/ˈʃeɪdi/, U.S.

/ˈʃeɪdi/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s shaddy.

Etymology: < shade n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Affording shade.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade

umbrosea1425

shadowing1552

umbrate?1553

shadeful1563

shady1579

shadinga1586

umbrageous1587

shadowy1607

umbriferous1616

umbratile1659

umbracious1839

adumbral1845

umbering1872

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 31 You naked trees, whose shady leaues are lost.

1611 Bible (King James) Job xl. 22 The shady trees couer him with their shaddow.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 The winged Nation..o're the Plains, and shady Forrest flies.

1825 W. Wordsworth To Skylark 7 Leave to the nightingale her shady wood.

1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxvi There was a shady hat to be chosen.

a. Shaded, protected by shade.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade

shadowy1398

shadowed1400

umbrous1480

shadowish1530

shadeful1563

shadowous1585

shady1589

umbrageous1622

shaded1635

swaly1820

adumbral1855

umbraged1890

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D The shadie valleies [shall be] thy euenings arbour.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2 Her angels face..made a sunshine in the shady place.

1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 167 Those little moats that from a shady place we see swimming up and down in the Sun beams.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 June (1965) I. 366 I am in the Midle of a wood..divided into many Shady Walks.

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 145 Deep in the shady sadness of a vale.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 22 There are shady places under the trees, at which..we may often rest and talk.

b. figurative phrase on the shady side of: older than (a specified age).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > older than an age

on the wrong side of1664

on the shady side of1807

1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 108 The younger being somewhat on the shady side of thirty.

1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 74 Thou art on the shady Side of sixty too.

c. Inhabiting or loving the shade; choosing retirement and security.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > retired or secluded (of person)

recluse?c1225

private1585

shadya1586

retired1590

umbraticala1637

sequestered1643

reclusive1749

umbratile1850

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4 We were full of courage, giuen to martiall exercises;..and not lulled a sleepe in shady idlenes with Poets pastimes.

†3.

a. Opaque; also, not luminous, dark. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [adjective]

troublea1327

nebulous?a1425

cloudy1587

shady1605

untransparent1605

untransparablea1618

opacous1625

opaque1631

opacious1643

non-transparent1653

adiaphanous1658

undiaphanous1666

opacular1761

intransparent1842

opacious1953

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating

darkOE

lightlessa1398

unlighted?1574

shady1605

beamless1679

unshining1682

unluminous1754

unlit1787

unillumed1796

unilluminated1824

unillumined1826

unsunned1838

unlitten1867

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Eee1^v This Globe which seemeth to vs a dark and shady body is in the view of God, as Christall.

1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. ii. iv. 343 And that 'tis not Pellucid or Shining, but is the same shady Body, is evident from this [etc.].

b. said of night. poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > dark (of night)

shady1746

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective]

duneOE

thestera900

thestria900

wana1000

darkfulOE

fadec1290

obscurousa1492

black-faced1562

murkyc1590

gloomy1594

tenebrous1599

solemn1604

overcast1616

mungy1632

shady1746

sombrous1754

sombre1760

gloomyish1821

gloomfula1849

ebonine1881

1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. ii. 281 From dawning Day till shady Night [L. ad umbram lucis ab ortu].

1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xix. 27 Eyes the shady night has shut.

†c. Of qualities: Of the nature of shade or defect. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > of immaterial things > other

shady1719

undertoned1849

1719 W. Oldisworth E. Smith's Wks. Charac. Author A 8 If the World had half his good Nature, all the shady Parts would be entirely struck out of his Character.

†4. Shadowy, indefinite in outline, faintly perceptible. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §249 You shall see..diuers such Super-Reflexions, till the species speciei at last die. For it is euery Returne weaker, and more shady.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence iv. 332 The light of Conscience..may be..made shine very dim, so as to give but a very faint and shady direction.

5. colloquial.

a. Of questionable merit or prospects of success; uncertain, unreliable. [? Originally university slang.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective]

unsicker?c1225

uncertaina1382

unsadc1384

untristya1387

untrustya1387

unsurec1412

falliblec1425

slipperc1430

ficklea1450

frivol1488

slidder?a1500

casuala1535

slippery1548

slippy1548

failable1561

doubtful1562

lubricious1584

slope1587

queasy1589

unconfirmedc1592

nice1598

catching1603

loose1603

precary1606

ambiguous1612

treacherous1612

unsafe1615

unsureda1616

precarious1626

lubric1631

dubious1635

lubricous1646

unestablished1646

unfixed1654

unsecure?a1685

unreliable1810

unproven1836

untrustworthy1846

shady1848

wobbly1877

Kaffir1899

independable1921

dodgy1961

temperamental1962

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 24 The Tutor..Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

1858 Bp. Fraser in Hughes Life (1887) 97 We have twenty-one candidates for the Ireland—a shady lot.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxv. 95 What looks very well one way may look very shady the other.

?c1880 Jowett in Tollemache Mem. (1895) 21 [Commenting on the remark that England had one living poet of the first order, but hardly another even of the second class.] I think that Browning deserves a shady first.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 5/2 The chances of the Underground Railway against the omnibuses will be very shady.

b. Not bearing investigation, of a nature or character unable to bear the light; disreputable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > [adjective]

sneaky1861

shady1862

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute

unhonesta1382

ill-famed1483

scoury?a1513

renownless1552

uncredited1586

bankrupt1601

discredited1605

disopinioned1622

creditless1660

unreputable1688

irreputable1709

low-lifed?1750

louche1819

characterless1825

disreputable1828

pikey1838

shady1862

lowlife1939

sleazoid1976

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > shady or fishy

fishy1840

shady1862

smelly1944

1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 156 Balls and bazaars continue to be the refuge of institutions, whether charitable or religious, whose balance-sheets are ‘shady’.

1873 Punch 25 Oct. 167/2 Have always heard that ‘shady people’ went to Boulogne.

1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life iv. 42 I was entrusted with a brief by a rather shady attorney.

1894 E. Sullivan Woman 52 A Roman lady of extraordinary beauty and somewhat shady character.

Draft additions December 2006

ˈshadily adv. with or by shade; (now usually) in a questionable or disreputable manner.

ΚΠ

1840 W. Whewell tr. J. W. von Goethe Herman & Dorothea 69 By the reverend gloom of tall limes shadily shelter'd, In that place already many a century rooted.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xliii. 773 We made the most of our opportunity, some honestly, some shadily.

1983 National Jrnl. 19 Mar. 605/2 The Italian central bank refused to make good on the obligations of Banco Ambrosiano..when its shadily run Luxembourg subsidiary folded.

1997 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Mar. t12 The original motley crew, drawn from all over South America..are shadily lured to New York by the promise of high wages.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	shady
释义	shadyadj. Brit. /ˈʃeɪdi/, U.S. /ˈʃeɪdi/ Forms: Also 1600s–1700s shaddy. Etymology: < shade n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Affording shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade umbrosea1425 shadowing1552 umbrate?1553 shadeful1563 shady1579 shadinga1586 umbrageous1587 shadowy1607 umbriferous1616 umbratile1659 umbracious1839 adumbral1845 umbering1872 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 31 You naked trees, whose shady leaues are lost. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xl. 22 The shady trees couer him with their shaddow. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 The winged Nation..o're the Plains, and shady Forrest flies. View more context for this quotation 1825 W. Wordsworth To Skylark 7 Leave to the nightingale her shady wood. 1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxvi There was a shady hat to be chosen. 2. a. Shaded, protected by shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade shadowy1398 shadowed1400 umbrous1480 shadowish1530 shadeful1563 shadowous1585 shady1589 umbrageous1622 shaded1635 swaly1820 adumbral1855 umbraged1890 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D The shadie valleies [shall be] thy euenings arbour. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2 Her angels face..made a sunshine in the shady place. 1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 167 Those little moats that from a shady place we see swimming up and down in the Sun beams. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 June (1965) I. 366 I am in the Midle of a wood..divided into many Shady Walks. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 145 Deep in the shady sadness of a vale. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 22 There are shady places under the trees, at which..we may often rest and talk. b. figurative phrase on the shady side of: older than (a specified age). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > older than an age on the wrong side of1664 on the shady side of1807 1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 108 The younger being somewhat on the shady side of thirty. 1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 74 Thou art on the shady Side of sixty too. c. Inhabiting or loving the shade; choosing retirement and security.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > retired or secluded (of person) recluse?c1225 private1585 shadya1586 retired1590 umbraticala1637 sequestered1643 reclusive1749 umbratile1850 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4 We were full of courage, giuen to martiall exercises;..and not lulled a sleepe in shady idlenes with Poets pastimes. †3. a. Opaque; also, not luminous, dark. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [adjective] troublea1327 nebulous?a1425 cloudy1587 shady1605 untransparent1605 untransparablea1618 opacous1625 opaque1631 opacious1643 non-transparent1653 adiaphanous1658 undiaphanous1666 opacular1761 intransparent1842 opacious1953 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating darkOE lightlessa1398 unlighted?1574 shady1605 beamless1679 unshining1682 unluminous1754 unlit1787 unillumed1796 unilluminated1824 unillumined1826 unsunned1838 unlitten1867 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Eee1^v This Globe which seemeth to vs a dark and shady body is in the view of God, as Christall. View more context for this quotation 1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. ii. iv. 343 And that 'tis not Pellucid or Shining, but is the same shady Body, is evident from this [etc.]. b. said of night. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > dark (of night) shady1746 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] duneOE thestera900 thestria900 wana1000 darkfulOE fadec1290 obscurousa1492 black-faced1562 murkyc1590 gloomy1594 tenebrous1599 solemn1604 overcast1616 mungy1632 shady1746 sombrous1754 sombre1760 gloomyish1821 gloomfula1849 ebonine1881 1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. ii. 281 From dawning Day till shady Night [L. ad umbram lucis ab ortu]. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xix. 27 Eyes the shady night has shut. †c. Of qualities: Of the nature of shade or defect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > of immaterial things > other shady1719 undertoned1849 1719 W. Oldisworth E. Smith's Wks. Charac. Author A 8 If the World had half his good Nature, all the shady Parts would be entirely struck out of his Character. †4. Shadowy, indefinite in outline, faintly perceptible. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §249 You shall see..diuers such Super-Reflexions, till the species speciei at last die. For it is euery Returne weaker, and more shady. 1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence iv. 332 The light of Conscience..may be..made shine very dim, so as to give but a very faint and shady direction. 5. colloquial. a. Of questionable merit or prospects of success; uncertain, unreliable. [? Originally university slang.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] unsicker?c1225 uncertaina1382 unsadc1384 untristya1387 untrustya1387 unsurec1412 falliblec1425 slipperc1430 ficklea1450 frivol1488 slidder?a1500 casuala1535 slippery1548 slippy1548 failable1561 doubtful1562 lubricious1584 slope1587 queasy1589 unconfirmedc1592 nice1598 catching1603 loose1603 precary1606 ambiguous1612 treacherous1612 unsafe1615 unsureda1616 precarious1626 lubric1631 dubious1635 lubricous1646 unestablished1646 unfixed1654 unsecure?a1685 unreliable1810 unproven1836 untrustworthy1846 shady1848 wobbly1877 Kaffir1899 independable1921 dodgy1961 temperamental1962 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 24 The Tutor..Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich. 1858 Bp. Fraser in Hughes Life (1887) 97 We have twenty-one candidates for the Ireland—a shady lot. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxv. 95 What looks very well one way may look very shady the other. ?c1880 Jowett in Tollemache Mem. (1895) 21 [Commenting on the remark that England had one living poet of the first order, but hardly another even of the second class.] I think that Browning deserves a shady first. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 5/2 The chances of the Underground Railway against the omnibuses will be very shady. b. Not bearing investigation, of a nature or character unable to bear the light; disreputable. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > [adjective] sneaky1861 shady1862 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute unhonesta1382 ill-famed1483 scoury?a1513 renownless1552 uncredited1586 bankrupt1601 discredited1605 disopinioned1622 creditless1660 unreputable1688 irreputable1709 low-lifed?1750 louche1819 characterless1825 disreputable1828 pikey1838 shady1862 lowlife1939 sleazoid1976 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > shady or fishy fishy1840 shady1862 smelly1944 1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 156 Balls and bazaars continue to be the refuge of institutions, whether charitable or religious, whose balance-sheets are ‘shady’. 1873 Punch 25 Oct. 167/2 Have always heard that ‘shady people’ went to Boulogne. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life iv. 42 I was entrusted with a brief by a rather shady attorney. 1894 E. Sullivan Woman 52 A Roman lady of extraordinary beauty and somewhat shady character. Draft additions December 2006 ˈshadily adv. with or by shade; (now usually) in a questionable or disreputable manner. ΚΠ 1840 W. Whewell tr. J. W. von Goethe Herman & Dorothea 69 By the reverend gloom of tall limes shadily shelter'd, In that place already many a century rooted. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xliii. 773 We made the most of our opportunity, some honestly, some shadily. 1983 National Jrnl. 19 Mar. 605/2 The Italian central bank refused to make good on the obligations of Banco Ambrosiano..when its shadily run Luxembourg subsidiary folded. 1997 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Mar. t12 The original motley crew, drawn from all over South America..are shadily lured to New York by the promise of high wages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1579
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