cloudy
cloudy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Consisting of a cloud or clouds. As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended. Ex. xxxiii. 9 3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance." Shak.
- 2.Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark. Cloudy and confused notions of things. Watts.
- 3.Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle.
- 4.Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- cloud
- cloudiness
- dim
- dirty
- film
- fog
- foggy
- fuliginous
- fumid
- haze
- haziness
- hazy
- impervious
- instrument
- light
- measure
- misty
- muddiness
- muddy
- muggy
- murky
- nephelometer
- nubiferous
- obfuscate
- obscurity
- obstruct
- offuscate
- opacity
- opacous
- opaque
- opaqueness
- passage
- smoky
- the
- thick
- turbid
- turbidity
- vaporous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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