Shady

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Full of shade; shaded.
  • adj. Casting shade: a shady grove.
  • adj. Quiet, dark, or concealed; hidden.
  • adj. Of dubious character or honesty; questionable. See Synonyms at dark.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Abounding in shades.
  • adj. Causing shade.
  • adj. Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
  • adj. Not trustworthy; Unfit to be seen or known.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
  • adj. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Abounding with or affording shade.
  • Sheltered from glare or sultry heat; shaded: as, a shady place.
  • Such as cannot bear the light; of doubtful honesty or morality: as, a shady transaction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
  • adj. filled with shade
  • adj. not as expected
  • adj. of questionable taste or morality
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    sunny   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    shadiest    shadier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dark    shaded    shadowy    umbrageous    shadowish    Bowery    bushy    seedy    suspicious    dodgy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brady    Grady    Lady    cady    kady    lady   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    leafy    sunny    grassy    shadowy    mossy    woodland    spacious    lonely    flowery    adjacent