Word Meanings - SHADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHADING)

• Eclipse
• Failure
• obscuration
• overshadowing
• shading
• diminution
• outshining
• outdoing
• outrivalling

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHADING)

• Recommend
• brighten
• illustrate
• enhance
• heighten

Related words: (words related to SHADING)

• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SHADING
  1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• SHADD
  Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• SHADOOF
  A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• RECOMMENDER
  One who recommends.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• SHADILY
  In a shady manner.
• OUTDOORS
  Abread; out of the house; out of doors.
• ENHANCER
  One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
• SHAD-WAITER
  A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
• RECOMMENDABLE
  Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv.
• OVERSHADOWER
  One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.
• OVERSHADOWY
  Overshadowing.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna