Synonyms of the word

shadow

• n. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
• n. Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
• n. (obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
• n. That which looms as though a shadow.
• n. A small degree; a shade.
• n. An imperfect and faint representation.
• n. (Britain, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
• n. One who secretly or furtively follows another.
• n. A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
• n. An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
• n. A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
• n. (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
• n. (psychology) In Jungian psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality.
• v. To block light or radio transmission.
• v. (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
• v. To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to…
• v. (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same…
• v. (computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
• adj. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
• adj. Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
• adj. (politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.

apparition

• n. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
• n. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
• n. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
• n. (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;—opposed…
• n. (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed. An…

bedim

• v. (transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

boding

• n. An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
• adj. Portending, ominous.
• v. present participle of bode.

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

darkness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light.
• n. (uncountable) Gloom.
• n. (countable) The product of being dark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
• n. (uncountable) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

dominate

• v. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
• v. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
• v. To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
• v. To overlook from a height.

dwarf

• n. (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore,…
• n. (now often offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in…
• n. An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
• n. (astronomy) A star of relatively small size.
• adj. (especially in botany) Miniature.
• v. (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
• v. (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
• v. (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
• v. (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
• v. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

fantasm

• n. Alternative spelling of phantasm.

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

follower

• n. (literally) One who follows, comes after another.
• n. Something that comes after another thing.
• n. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
• n. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
• n. An imitator, who follows another's example.
• n. A pursuer.
• n. A person or an account holding entity who's following someone or something (such as a company, a government…
• n. A machine part receiving motion from another.
• n. A man courting a maidservant.
• n. Young cattle.
• n. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
• n. (Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A debt collector.

foreboding

• n. A sense of evil to come.
• n. An evil omen.
• adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
• v. present participle of forebode.

illusion

• n. (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
• n. (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
• n. (countable) A magician’s trick.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.

indicant

• adj. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
• n. That which indicates or points out.

indication

• n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
• n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
• n. Discovery made; information.
• n. (obsolete) Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
• n. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
• n. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

obscure

• adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
• adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• adj. difficult to understand.
• adj. not well-known.
• v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
• v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

overcloud

• v. To cover, or become covered, with clouds.

overlook

• n. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
• v. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to…
• v. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly.
• v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
• v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
• v. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
• v. To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

overshadow

• v. (transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
• v. (transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.

overtop

• v. (transitive) To be higher than; to rise over the top of.
• v. (transitive) To place too many toppings on.
• adv. (now chiefly Canada, US) Over the top.

phantasm

• n. something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.

phantasma

• n. Alternative form of phantasm.

phantom

• n. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something…
• n. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
• adj. Illusive.
• adj. Fictitious or nonexistent.

premonition

• n. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
• n. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

presence

• n. The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
• n. The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
• n. A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his…
• n. Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
• n. A company's business activity in a particular market.
• n. The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts.
• v. (philosophy) To make or become present.

presentiment

• n. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

recourse

• n. The act of seeking assistance or advice.
• n. (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
• n. (obsolete) Access; admittance.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to recur.
• v. (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.

refuge

• n. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
• n. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
• n. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
• n. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
• n. A refuge island.
• v. (intransitive) To return to a place of shelter.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to protect.

resort

• n. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment,…
• n. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
• n. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
• v. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
• v. To fall back; to revert.
• v. To make one's way, go (to).
• v. to repeat a sorting process; sort again.
• n. An act of sorting again.
• n. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.

scene

• n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
• n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the…
• n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go…
• n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence,…
• n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play,…
• n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their…
• n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
• n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often,…
• n. An element of fiction writing.
• n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere…
• v. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

semblance

• n. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
• n. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

shade

• n. (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
• n. (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
• n. (countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
• n. (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
• n. (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
• n. A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning.
• n. (archaic or literary) A ghost.
• n. (archaic) A creature that is partially human and partially angel.
• n. (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and…
• n. (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.
• v. (transitive) To shield from light.
• v. (transitive) To alter slightly.
• v. (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
• v. (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
• v. (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
• v. To surpass by a narrow margin.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

shadiness

• n. The property of being shady.

shadower

• n. One who shadows.

shadowiness

• n. The state or property of being shadowy.

spy

• n. A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers…
• v. (intransitive) To act as a spy.
• v. (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of.
• v. (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
• v. (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tincture

• n. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
• n. A tint, or an added colour.
• n. (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
• n. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
• n. (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
• n. An essential characteristic.
• n. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the…
• n. A slight taste superadded to any substance.
• n. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
• v. to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.
• v. (figuratively) to tinge; to taint.
• v. To soak (an organic substance) in alcohol or another liquid to produce a tincture.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

vestige

• n. The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.
• n. A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;…
• n. (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary…