CLOUDY (cloudier, cloudiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: cloudier    , cloudiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloudy mean? 

• CLOUDY (adjective)
  The adjective CLOUDY has 3 senses:

1. lacking definite form or limits

2. full of or covered with clouds

3. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

  Familiarity information: CLOUDY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUDY (adjective)

Comparative: cloudier   
Superlative: cloudiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking definite form or limits

Synonyms:

cloudy; nebulose; nebulous

Context example:

nebulous distinction between pride and conceit

Similar:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

Derivation:

cloudiness (the quality of being cloudy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Full of or covered with clouds

Context example:

cloudy skies

Similar:

brumous; foggy; hazy; misty (filled or abounding with fog or mist)

fogbound (enveloped in fog)

cloud-covered; clouded; overcast; sunless (filled or abounding with clouds)

cloudlike; nebular (resembling a cloud)

dull; leaden (darkened with overcast)

heavy; lowering; sullen; threatening (darkened by clouds)

miasmal; miasmic; vaporous; vapourous (filled with vapor)

smoggy (clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog)

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Antonym:

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

Derivation:

cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

cloudiness (the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of liquids) clouded as with sediment

Synonyms:

cloudy; mirky; muddy; murky; turbid

Context example:

murky waters

Similar:

opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)

Derivation:

cloudiness (the quality of being cloudy)

 Context examples 

An intraepidermal/subepidermal cavity filled with clear, serosanguineous or cloudy fluid.

(Blister, NCI Thesaurus)

The difference in distance from one night to the next will be very subtle, so if it’s cloudy on Sunday, go out on Monday.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

A bright morning so early in the year, she allowed, would generally turn to rain, but a cloudy one foretold improvement as the day advanced.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Analysis of this spectrum indicated that its atmosphere is cloudy.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

A large (greater than 5-10 mm) intraepidermal/subepidermal cavity filled with clear, serosanguineous or cloudy fluid.

(Bulla, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.

(Cataract, NCI Dictionary)

That is certainly remarkable, as the night was rainy, cloudy, and dark.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Weather can be hot or cold, dry or wet, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

(Climate Change, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

But in June and July, low atmospheric pressures and cloudy skies slowed down the melt.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)