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Cloudier

Cloudy \Cloud"y\ (kloud"[u^]), 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.

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cloudier

a. (en-comparative of: cloudy)

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cloudier

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cloudy
  1. adj. lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: nebulose, nebulous]

  2. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: muddy, mirky, murky, turbid]

  3. full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies" [ant: clear]

  4. [also: cloudiest, cloudier]

Usage examples of "cloudier".

It's a festival time, but the only thing I can think of that is special about the coming one is that the four moons of Darkover will all be visiblewell, not really, since it tends to be even cloudier in winter than in summerat the same time on Midwinter Eve.

The more he searched, the cloudier the water became, the less he could see.

And if you insist on clouding the issue with irrelevant moralism, you find it growing even cloudier when dealing with an alien species.