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UNCLOUDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unclouded mean?
• UNCLOUDED (adjective)
The adjective UNCLOUDED has 4 senses:
1. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
4. not made opaque or cloudy by sediment
Familiarity information: UNCLOUDED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
Synonyms:
clean; clear; light; unclouded
Context example:
a light lilting voice like a silver bell
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Derivation:
uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Free from clouds
Synonyms:
cloudless; unclouded
Context example:
under a cloudless sky
Similar:
clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)
Derivation:
uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not mentally disordered
Context example:
an unclouded mind
Similar:
clear-thinking; clearheaded (not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently)
Derivation:
uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not made opaque or cloudy by sediment
Context example:
the wine was unclouded
Similar:
clear (allowing light to pass through)
Derivation:
uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Context examples
No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fanny agreed to it, and had the pleasure of seeing him continue at the window with her, in spite of the expected glee; and of having his eyes soon turned, like hers, towards the scene without, where all that was solemn, and soothing, and lovely, appeared in the brilliancy of an unclouded night, and the contrast of the deep shade of the woods.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He looked up the pass and down the hollow; his glance wandered away with the stream, and returned to traverse the unclouded heaven which coloured it: he removed his hat, let the breeze stir his hair and kiss his brow.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was quite at the other end of the house; but I knew my way; and the light of the unclouded summer moon, entering here and there at passage windows, enabled me to find it without difficulty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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