Cloud-ridden

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of clouds.

    "We saw the sea-grey slopes of olive-trees Blown foamy-pale, from the cloud-ridden air Fell the swift shadows on those leafy seas."

  2. 2
    During which the sky is full of clouds.

    "I shall not dilate on the value of sunshine; there can be no need to do so to any dweller among the dun cold mists of our cloud-ridden winters."

  3. 3
    Covered or obscured by clouds.

    "[…] the traveller […] with difficulty ascends from the parched banks of the Magdalena, the Sabana—with its encircling chain of mountains and the extinct volcano of Tolima, snow-capped and cloud ridden in the distance […]"

Synonyms

All synonyms
cloudyovercast

Example

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"We saw the sea-grey slopes of olive-trees Blown foamy-pale, from the cloud-ridden air Fell the swift shadows on those leafy seas."

Etymology

From cloud + ridden.

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