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CLOUDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clouded mean?
• CLOUDED (adjective)
The adjective CLOUDED has 4 senses:
1. made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
2. filled or abounding with clouds
3. mentally disordered
4. unclear in form or expression
Familiarity information: CLOUDED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
Context example:
his face was clouded with unhappiness
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Filled or abounding with clouds
Synonyms:
cloud-covered; clouded; overcast; sunless
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Mentally disordered
Context example:
a mind clouded by sorrow
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Unclear in form or expression
Synonyms:
blurred; clouded
Context example:
sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded
Similar:
unclear (not clear to the mind)
Context examples
The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Thank you, returned Mr. Micawber, whose face clouded at this reference, she is but so-so.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His brow clouded at the allusion.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Poor Jim turned away with a clouded brow and strode into the smithy again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You may well tell them by their clouded brows, for there hath been some ill-will of late betwixt the prince and them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Well, the fact is,’ he remarked, ‘that when I recover from these attacks my mind is always very clouded as to all that has gone before.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hopkins’s brow was clouded, and he sat down with an air of deep dejection.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No sound came from within, and at the silence Holmes’ face clouded over.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was really March; but it was April in its mild air, brisk soft wind, and bright sun, occasionally clouded for a minute; and everything looked so beautiful under the influence of such a sky, the effects of the shadows pursuing each other on the ships at Spithead and the island beyond, with the ever-varying hues of the sea, now at high water, dancing in its glee and dashing against the ramparts with so fine a sound, produced altogether such a combination of charms for Fanny, as made her gradually almost careless of the circumstances under which she felt them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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