SHADY (shadier, shadiest)

Pronunciation (US):

• SHADY (adjective)
  The adjective SHADY has 4 senses:

1. of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty
2. of questionable taste or morality
3. not as expected
4. filled with shade

  Familiarity information: SHADY used as an adjective is uncommon.

• SHADY (adjective)

Meaning:

Of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty

Synonyms:

fly-by-night; shady

Context example:

a fly-by-night operation

Similar:

untrustworthy; untrusty (not worthy of trust or belief)

Meaning:

Of questionable taste or morality

Synonyms:

louche; shady

Context examples:

a louche nightclub / a louche painting

Similar:

disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)

Meaning:

Not as expected

Synonyms:

suspect; fishy; suspicious; shady; funny

Context examples:

there was something fishy about the accident / up to some funny business / some definitely queer goings-on / a shady deal / her motives were suspect / suspicious behavior

Similar:

questionable (subject to question)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Meaning:

Filled with shade

Synonyms:

shadowed; shadowy; umbrageous; shady

Context examples:

the shady side of the street / the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed / we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove / cool umbrageous woodlands

Similar:

shaded (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow)