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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOUDY, a.
1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with clouds; as a cloudy day; a cloudy sky; a cloudy night.
2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds; as a cloudy pillar. Exo
33:9.
3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood; as cloudy and confused notions.
4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or illnature; not open or cheerful; as cloudy looks.
5. Indicating gloom or sullenness; as cloudy wrath.
6. Marked with veins or spots of dark or various hues, as marble.
7. Not bright; as a cloudy diamond.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: cloudy, nebulose, nebulous]
2: full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies" [ant: clear]
3: (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (cloudier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. of, relating to, or resembling cloud <cloudy smoke> 2. darkened by gloom or anxiety <a cloudy mood> 3. a. overcast with clouds <cloudy weather> b. having a cloudy sky <a cloudy day> 4. obscure in meaning <cloudy issues>; also uncertain as to fact or outcome <a cloudy future> 5. dimmed or dulled as if by clouds <a cloudy mirror> 6. uneven in color or texture 7. having visible material in suspension ; murky <a cloudy liquid> • cloudily adverb • cloudiness noun

NOAA Weather Glossary

the state of the sky when 7/10ths or more of the sky is covered by clouds.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (cloudier, cloudiest) 1 a (of the sky) covered with clouds, overcast. b (of weather) characterized by clouds. 2 not transparent; unclear. Derivatives: cloudily adv. cloudiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloudy Cloud"y, a. [Compar. Cloudier; superl. Cloudiest.] [From Cloud, n.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cloudier, cloudiest) 1. If it is cloudy, there are a lot of clouds in the sky. ...a windy, cloudy day. ADJ 2. A cloudy liquid is less clear than it should be. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Clouded, murky, lowering, lurid, overcast. 2. Obscure, dark, dim, confused. 3. Gloomy, dismal, depressing, sullen. 4. Varied with dark spots, mottled. 5. Blurred, dimmed, lustreless, muddy.

Moby Thesaurus

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