Word Meanings - CLOUDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky. 2. 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

Additional info about word: CLOUDY

1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky. 2. 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. 4. Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark. Cloudy and confused notions of things. Watts. 5. Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle. 6. Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLOUDY)

• Dull
• Stupid
• stolid
• doltish
• insensible
• callous
• heavy
• gloomy
• dismal
• cloudy
• turbid
• opaque
• dowdy
• sluggish
• sad
• tiresome
• commonplace
• dead
• Hazy
• Foggy
• nebulous
• misty
• filmy
• gauzy
• murky
• caliginous
• Muggy
• dank
• damp
• dim
• vaporous
• Overcast
• Cloudy
• nubilous
• lowering
• Sombre
• grave
• dark
• funereal
• sable
• mournful
• dusky
• pensive
• melancholy

Related words: (words related to CLOUDY)

• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• TURBIDITY
  Turbidness.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• FUNEREAL
  Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• DUSKY
  1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• DISMAL
  dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• SOMBRERO
  A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.
• DOWDYISH
  Like a dowdy.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• REPLEVISABLE
  Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• DEMISABLE
  Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.
• ENUBILOUS
  Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.