Cloudy

//ˈkɫaʊdi// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

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
    Using or relating to cloud computing. informal

    "a cloudy infrastructure"

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  1. 6
    shady; sketchy; suspicious archaic, slang
  2. 7
    Having cloudlike markings.

    "cloudy marble"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of liquids) clouded as with sediment wordnet
  2. 2
    full of or covered with clouds wordnet
  3. 3
    lacking definite form or limits wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"Since it's cloudy with a chance of rain today, we shouldn't go surfing."

Etymology

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

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