cloudy

A1
US /ˈklaʊ̯ɾiː/ UK /ˈklaʊ̯diː/
adj Freq #13028

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    full of or covered with clouds

    cloudy skies

  2. 2
    adj

    lacking definite form or limits

    gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion- H.T.Moore

  3. 3
    adj

    (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

    a cloudy liquid

  4. 4
    adj

    Not transparent or clear.

    […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.

  5. 5
    adj

    Using or relating to cloud computing.

    a cloudy infrastructure

  6. 6
    adj

    Having cloudlike markings.

    cloudy marble

  7. 7
    adj

    Covered with or characterised by clouds.

  8. 8
    adj

    Uncertain; unclear.

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · lacking definite form or... nebulosenebulous
3 adj · (of liquids) clouded as... murky
7 adj · covered with or... cloudedovercast
Word family
Derived forms cloudilycloudinesscloudywingnoncloudyuncloudy

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