clouded

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
There was no short cut to the perfect understanding that is Bob's and mine today And when," timidly I inquired, "do you intend to be married, Ruth My sister's expression clouded.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

  1. Covered with clouds; obscured by clouds: as, a clouded sky
  2. Marked by dark, vague, irregular spots: as, a clouded cane; a clouded leopard or tiger-cat.
  3. Clouded locust. See klocust.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • In 1840 his wife's mind became clouded, and, though she never recovered, she lived on till 1894. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • A few minutes more and the sky is clouded, the glassy sea is ruffled, the pleasant light sinks into a dull leaden grey, the wind whistles over the ocean, and we are--as far as feeling is concerned--transported into another, but by no means a better, world Thus it was with our adventurers. —  The Norsemen in the West
  • I knew the rule that those who marry without leave must leave their wives at home, for only a certain number of families can go abroad with a regiment--and that only in peace-time It might have been well," continued Armstrong, slowly, while a sad expression clouded his face for a few moments, "if I had waited, and many a time has my conscience smitten me for my haste. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • But the crowning unreality of his long unreal ride, was, their all at once rising to receive him, with every refinement of manner known to the time, and with all the engaging graces and courtesies of life So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners and gloom, so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor and misery through which they were seen, that Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. —  A Tale of Two Cities
  • That sentence must now be put in force Prince Henry's face clouded, and he scowled as he exclaimed What I would you defy the Prince of Wales to his very face? —  Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
 

Tags

clouded hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 54 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same contextWord Family

clouded:   cloud ·  clouding ·  clouds
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

cleansing · caver · droit · slipknot · seems

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Kylee · ultimatum · pew · deadpool · sad panda