Cloudful
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The amount contained in a cloud.
"One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!"
- 1 Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
"From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky."
- 2 Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid. broadly
"His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like.""
Example
More examples"From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky."
Etymology
From Middle English cloudeful, equivalent to cloud + -ful.
From cloud + -ful.
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