Synonyms and Antonyms of shady
1
protected from the sun's rays
- a lovely shady spot in the park that was pleasantly cool
canopied, covered, sheltered
cloudy
dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, inky, moonless, murky, obscure, obscured, penumbral, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless
bedazzling, bright, brightened, brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, light, lit (or lighted), lucent, lucid, luminary, luminous
beaming, lambent, radiant, shining
lustrous
2
given to or marked by cheating and deception
bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded
unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous
deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, false
artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wily
defrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, tricky
insidious, perfidious, treacherous
3
giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged
- cited some shady statistics to back up his argument
debatable, disputable, dodgy [chiefly British], doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, problematic (also problematical), queer, questionable, shaky, suspect, suspicious
alleged, so-called, supposed
moot
ambiguous, open, unclear
uncertain, undecided, undetermined
far-fetched, flimsy, improbable, unlikely, weak
certain, hands-down, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable, questionless, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unproblematic, unquestionable
4
given to acting in secret and to concealing
