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adjective

Cloudy adj. (compar. cloudier; superl. cloudiest)

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

Consisting of a cloud or clouds. "As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended."

Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance."

Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark. "Cloudy and confused notions of things."

Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond."

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

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Etymology of 'Cloudy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cloudy" Quotes from Famous Books

... reading with the book held close to the eyes. The long search on maps for obscure names printed in letters of bad and trying type should be discouraged. Straining the eyes in trying to read from slates and blackboards, in the last hour of the afternoon session, or in cloudy weather, may do a lifelong injury to the eyesight. Avoid the use, so far as possible, especially in a defective light, of text-books which are printed on battered ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... a parsnip stew of noble proportions was prepared. At eleven o'clock the great kettle, full to the rim, hung over the fire, and the room was cloudy with savory steam. The Wigginses were expected every minute. Uncles Silas and Caleb Whitman could be seen from the kitchen window out in the field with their brother bending over the plough furrows, and they kept righting themselves and looking at their old silver ...

— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... Greeks, so it happens with us, "different men have different opinions;"—nor is it easy to determine which is best. Thus also in painting, some are pleased with a rough, a wild, and a dark and cloudy style; while others prefer that which is clear, and lively, and well covered with light. How then shall we strike out a general rule or model, when there are several manners, and each of them has a certain ...

— Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... silent, and never took her eyes from him. He had bidden her farewell before taking leave of the rest, at their old haunt by the Hunger-Thurm. There had not been many words, and there had been no tears, but it had been nevertheless the saddest parting Greif ever remembered. The day was cloudy and a soft wind was making melancholy music among the grand old trees. Their own voices had sounded discordant and out of tune, and the words that might have expressed what they felt would not be found, and perhaps ...

— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford

... cloudy veil, the incestuous[17] queen Sigh'd the sad call[18] her son and husband heard, When once alone it broke the silent scene, 40 And he the wretch of Thebes no ...

— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins

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