Cloudy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cloudy \Cloud"y\ (kloud"[u^]), a. [Compar. {Cloudier}; superl.
     {Cloudiest}.] [From Cloud, n.]
     1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy
        sky.
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     2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
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              As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy
              pillar descended.                     --Ex. xxxiii.
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     3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not
        open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance." --Shak.
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     4. Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
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              Cloudy and confused notions of things. --Watts.
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     5. Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy
        diamond." --Boyle.
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     6. Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as
        marble.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cloudy
       adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues
              toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous
              distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: {nebulose},
               {nebulous}]
       2: (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy
          liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: {muddy}, {mirky},
           {murky}, {turbid}]
       3: full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies" [ant: {clear}]
       [also: {cloudiest}, {cloudier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloudy":
     Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, addlebrained, addled,
     addleheaded, addlepated, adiaphanous, amorphous, angry, beclouded,
     befuddled, blind, castellatus, cirrose, cirrous, clear as mud,
     cloud-flecked, clouded, cumuliform, cumulous, cyclonic, dark,
     dark and gloomy, dim, dirty, dull, fogged, foggy, foul,
     fuddlebrained, fuddled, funereal, fuzzy, gloomful, glooming,
     gloomy, grumly, hazy, heavy, ill-lighted, ill-lit,
     impervious to light, in a fog, in a muddle, indeterminate,
     indistinct, intransparent, lenticularis, lowering, mammatus,
     misted, misty, mucky, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky, mushy,
     muzzy, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast,
     overclouded, puzzleheaded, raging, rainy, roiled, roily, shadowy,
     shapeless, somber, sombrous, squally, storming, stormy, stratiform,
     stratous, tempestuous, thunderheaded, tornadic, transcendent,
     turbid, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unclear, unplain, vague,
     vaporous, vapory