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cloud·y

 (klou′dē)
adj. cloud·i·er, cloud·i·est
1. Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
2. Of or like a cloud or clouds.
3. Marked with indistinct masses or streaks: cloudy marble.
4. Not transparent, as certain liquids.
5.
a. Open to more than one interpretation.
b. Not clearly perceived or perceptible.
6. Troubled; gloomy: His future at the company is cloudy.

cloud′i·ly adv.
cloud′i·ness n.
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cloudy

(ˈklaʊdɪ)
adj, cloudier or cloudiest
1. (Physical Geography) covered with cloud or clouds
2. of or like a cloud or clouds
3. streaked or mottled like a cloud
4. opaque or muddy
5. obscure or unclear
6. troubled by gloom or depression: his face had a cloudy expression.
ˈcloudily adv
ˈcloudiness n
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cloud•y

(ˈklaʊ di)

adj. cloud•i•er, cloud•i•est.
1. covered with clouds: a cloudy sky.
2. having little or no sunshine: a cloudy day.
3. of or like a cloud.
4. not clear: a cloudy liquid.
5. obscure: cloudy prospects.
6. darkened by gloom or trouble: a cloudy look.
[before 900; Old English clūdig rocky, hilly]
cloud′i•ly, adv.
cloud′i•ness, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.cloudy - lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
indistinct - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"
2.cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"
meteorology - the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)
clear - free from clouds or mist or haze; "on a clear day"
3.cloudy - (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
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cloudy

adjective
1. dull, dark, dim, gloomy, dismal, sombre, overcast, leaden, sunless, louring or lowering It was a cloudy, windy day.
dull clear, fair, bright, sunny
2. opaque, muddy, murky, emulsified She could just barely see him through the cloudy water.
3. vague, confused, obscure, blurred, unclear, hazy, indistinct The legal position on this issue is very cloudy.
confused clear, obvious, plain, distinct
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cloudy

adjective
1. Covered by or as if by a thin coating or film:
2. Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended:
3. Liable to more than one interpretation:
4. Not clearly perceived or perceptible:
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Translations
غَائِمغائِم، مُتَلَبِّدٌ بالغُيوممُبْهَم، غَيْر واضِح
zamračenýnejasnýoblačnýzamlžený
overskyetuklar
pilvinen
oblačan
óskÿrskÿjaîur
曇った
흐린
oblačný
oblačen
molnig
ที่ปกคลุมด้วยเมฆ
có mây

cloudy

[ˈklaʊdɪ] ADJ (cloudier (compar) (cloudiest (superl)))
1. (Met) [sky] → nublado, cubierto de nubes; [day, weather] → nublado
it's cloudy todayhoy está nublado
2. (= murky) [liquid] → turbio
3. (= unclear) [policy, ideas, memory] → confuso
4. (= misty) [eyes, glass] → empañado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cloudy

[ˈklaʊdi] adj
[sky] → nuageux/euse, couvert(e)
[liquid] → trouble
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cloudy

adj (+er)
skywolkig, bewölkt, bedeckt; weathergrau; we had only three cloudy dayswir hatten nur drei Tage, an denen es bewölkt war; it’s getting cloudyes bewölkt sich; the weather will be cloudyes ist mit Bewölkung zu rechnen
liquid, diamond, glass, eyes etctrüb
(= unclear) argument, position, point of viewdiffus, unklar
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cloudy

[ˈklaʊdɪ] adj (sky) → nuvoloso/a, coperto/a; (liquid) → torbido/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cloud

(klaud)
1. a mass of tiny drops of water floating in the sky. white clouds in a blue sky; The hills were hidden in cloud.
2. a great number or quantity of anything small moving together. a cloud of flies.
3. something causing fear, depression etc. a cloud of sadness.
verb
1. (often with over) to become cloudy. The sky clouded over and it began to rain.
2. to (cause to) become blurred or not clear. Her eyes were clouded with tears.
3. to (cause to) become gloomy or troubled. His face clouded at the unhappy news.
ˈcloudless adjective
free from clouds. a cloudless sky.
ˈcloudy adjective
1. full of, having, or covered with clouds. It is a bit cloudy today.
2. not clear. a cloudy photograph/memory.
ˈcloudburst noun
a sudden heavy shower of rain.
under a cloud
in trouble or disgrace.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

cloudy

غَائِم zamračený overskyet wolkig συννεφιασμένος nublado pilvinen nuageux oblačan nuvoloso 曇った 흐린 bewolkt skyet pochmurny nublado облачный molnig ที่ปกคลุมด้วยเมฆ bulutlu có mây 多云的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

cloudy

a. turbio-a, nebuloso-a, oscuro-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

cloudy

adj (comp -ier; super -iest) (urine, etc.) turbio
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References in classic literature ?
The evening, I remember, was still and cloudy; the London air was at its heaviest; the distant hum of the street-traffic was at its faintest; the small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison, languidly and more languidly, with the sinking sun.
"If you have a minute to spare before you go, child, I wish you'd just make Mac a fresh shade; this has got a berry stain on it, and he must be tidy, for he is to go out to-morrow if it is a cloudy day," said Mrs.
It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-colored waters.
The night was warm and cloudy and although it was not yet eight o'clock, the alleyway back of the Eagle office was pitch dark.
Behind it, sheltering its garden from the too keen breath of sea winds, was a cloudy fir wood, in which the winds might make all kinds of weird and haunting music.
For with them was there equally good, clear, Oriental air; there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy Old-Europe!
The weather was cloudy. A gale of wind was preparing.
He shook his head mutinously, and the cloudy deeps of his eyes grew more cloudy.
They talked over all the events of their late campaigns; but the Canadian veteran had been unlucky in some of his transactions; and his brow began to grow cloudy. Captain Bonneville remarked his rising spleen, and regretted that he had no juice of the grape to keep it down.
Toward midnight, after he had left the countess' apartments, he was sitting upstairs in a shabby dressing gown, copying out the original transaction of the Scottish lodge of Freemasons at a table in his low room cloudy with tobacco smoke, when someone came in.
Late in the afternoon it had come on to be cloudy, and he had lost his bearings; and although he had only to go always downhill--everywhere the way to safety when one is lost--the absence of trails had so impeded him that he was overtaken by night while still in the forest.
'I took the old hall once on a moonlight night, and I suppose I must take it again on a snowy winter's day, and then again on a dark cloudy evening; for I really have nothing else to paint.