Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
- adj. Of or like a cloud or clouds.
- adj. Marked with indistinct masses or streaks: cloudy marble.
- adj. Not transparent, as certain liquids.
- adj. Open to more than one interpretation.
- adj. Not clearly perceived or perceptible.
- adj. Troubled; gloomy: His future at the company is cloudy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Overcast with clouds; obscured by clouds: as, a cloudy day; a cloudy sky.
- Consisting of a cloud or clouds; of the nature of a cloud.
- Obscure; dark; not easily understood.
- Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill nature; not open or cheerful.
- Marked with spots or areas of dark or various hues, or by clouding or a blending of light and shade or of colors.
- Wanting in luster, brightness, transparency, or clearness; dimmed: as, a cloudy diamond.
Wiktionary
- adj. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
- adj. Not transparent or clear.
- adj. Uncertain; unclear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a
cloudy sky. - adj. Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
- adj. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
- adj. Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
- adj. Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
- adj. Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking definite form or limits
- adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- adj. full of or covered with clouds
Etymologies
- cloud + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He has his own theory that negative feedback from water vapor in cloudy regions will reduce the effect.”
“Rooster Tail spinners are also great for bass and crappie in cloudy water, and I have caught several fish with them.”
There is a lake near my house that is full of walleye, 2 lb. + crappie and large mouth bass.
“The companies solar products are specially designed to work well in cloudy conditions such as those seen in Europe.”
“Nadal and Djokovic set up their expected semifinal clash at the French Open on Tuesday with straight-sets quarterfinal wins in cloudy, rainy weather.”
“Ah, the news value of 8 'of partly cloudy is priceless.”
“To see how Sun Sensors performed in cloudy weather, we left the stickers out on a hazy, humid day a few hours before a thunderstorm struck.”
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“More importantly the book and movie nurtured a primal fear we all have of unseen things in cloudy waters.”
“The plastic Grappler Shad has a similar action, casts better for distance, and (unlike the Shad Rap) has rattles, which could help bass locate it in cloudy water.”
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“The day was what photographers call cloudy-bright, turning toward mid-afternoon into fitful sunshine.”
“But Eleanor's thoughts went back to the thunderstorm, and her need then first felt of an inward sunshine that would last in cloudy times.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cloudy’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
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Russian Doll Words
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Clouds
We owe our current names for clouds to Luke Howard. Wikipedia tells us that "Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had earlier proposed a ...
wane-cloud, stratus, cirrostratus, cirro-stratus, strato-cirrus, altostratus, salmon-cloud, cumulus, altocumulus lenti..., sonder-cloud, rain-cloud, nimbostratus and 205 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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yawen's list
changes
who are you, relief, cloudy, mascara, bangs, 10th floor, automat, st. marks, mess, 10,000th wordie
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Cloudy or Clouded
nubilous; nebulous; nubilose
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Luis Guillermo's KiwiEnglish class
New Vocabulary
Rain, Rainy, Sun, Sunny, cloud, cloudy, forbidden, priest, brochure, old, young, flu and 2 more...
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Words on My British 2l Bottle of Lemo...
cloudy, comminuted, trace, statutory, carbonated, aspartame, sucralose, calorie, malic, slimming, safety, vegan and 1 more...
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OM1 Lesson 12
counter, fish, tuna, roast beef, bread, white, rye, wheat, pumpernickel, for here, to go, miss and 21 more...
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Muddy Words
Words used to describe mud and associated things.
turbid, Adam, pelacole, lutulent, illutible, roil, dirt, water, squish, mire, bog, swampy and 2 more...
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