Cloudy
['klaʊdɪ] or ['klaʊdi]
Definition
(adj.) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; 'a cloudy liquid'; 'muddy coffee'; 'murky waters' .
(adj.) full of or covered with clouds; 'cloudy skies' .
(adj.) lacking definite form or limits; 'gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion'- H.T.Moore; 'nebulous distinction between pride and conceit' .
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Definition
(n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
(n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
(n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
(n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
(n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
(n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Clouded, murky, lowering, lurid, overcast.[2]. Obscure, dark, dim, not clear.[3]. Gloomy, dismal, not cheerful.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MUGGY_and_OBSCURE]
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The night was warm and cloudy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A sharp rain, too, was beating against the window-panes; and the sky looked black and cloudy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The wind continued to blow with violence and the weather was still cloudy, but there was neither rain nor snow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am always serious, but just now I am a little excited by the glorious fact that a southerly wind and a cloudy sky proclaim a hunting evening. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The air in sultry weather, though not cloudy, has a kind of haziness in it, which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Her daylight view of them necessarily differed from the cloudy vision of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The morning was cloudy and lowering, but no rain fell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The day was cloudy but the sun was trying to come through. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In its primitive state the sun resembled the nebul?, which are to be observed through the telescope, with fiery centers and cloudy periphery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He did not agree with Wright that t hey, or the cloudy areas, would prove to be stars or small satellites, but rather that both co nsisted of vapor particles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a cloudy, misty moonlight, and there he saw it! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The various cloudy stars or light appearances are nothing but a dense accumulation of stars. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The direction of the wind at any point is indicated by an arrow which flies with the wind; and the state of the weather--clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, rain, snow, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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