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cloudy

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈklaʊ̯diː//
  • Canada/[ˈkʰlaʊ̯dɪi̯]/
  • /[ˈklaʊ̯ɾiː]/
  • /[ˈkʰlaʊ̯ɾɪi̯]/
  • //ˈklæʊ̯diː//

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

adjective

  1. 1

    Covered with or characterised by clouds.

  2. 2

    Not transparent or clear.

    […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.

  3. 3

    Not transparent or clear. Containing pith

  4. 4

    Uncertain; unclear.

  5. 5

    informalUsing or relating to cloud computing.

    a cloudy infrastructure

  6. 6

    archaicshady; sketchy; suspicious

  7. 7

    Having cloudlike markings.

    cloudy marble

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.

Forms

comparative
cloudier
superlative
cloudiest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).