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enshaded

enshaded adjective: marked with different shades.

Adjective

enshaded (comparative more enshaded, superlative most enshaded)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Marked with different shades.
    • the flower-enshaded veranda1855, Philippe Ferdinand A. de Rohan-Chabot, Electra
  2. (archaic, poetic) Kept in shade or darkness.
    • O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, / Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: […]c. 1810-1820, John Keats, "To Sleep"

Forms of enshaded

comparativemore enshaded
superlativemost enshaded

Origin of enshaded

From en- + shade + -ed.

Questions about enshaded

What does enshaded mean?
Enshaded means marked with different shades.
What part of speech is enshaded?
Enshaded is an adjective.

Words near enshaded in the dictionary

  1. ensewing
  2. ensews
  3. Ensey
  4. Enseys
  5. enshackle
  6. enshaded
  7. enshadow
  8. enshadowed
  9. enshadowing
  10. enshadows
  11. enshawled

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