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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cloudy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cloudy/dull/overcast (=with clouds)
▪ Cloudy skies were forecast.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
▪ Fiction: You can't get burned on a cloudy day.
▪ The sky was the color of an iced-over pond on a cloudy day.
▪ Faint scattered sunlight does reach the surface, as on a very cloudy day on Earth.
▪ You can burn just as easily on a cloudy day as on a bright one.
sky
▪ Britain's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance.
▪ He looked around, but the streets were empty, cloudy skies indifferent.
▪ As she did so, the windscreen reflected the cloudy sky back at her as a white sheet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cloudy day
▪ You can still get sunburnt on a cloudy day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the only thing there was a fragile gecko, which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes.
▪ He looked around, but the streets were empty, cloudy skies indifferent.
▪ He looked at the water going cloudy pink.
▪ I'd tell myself that the sky only looked grey because it was really still night-time, not because it was cloudy.
▪ In the partly cloudy moonlight, I checked my watch: 0200.
▪ Their eyes met through the cloudy plastic of the window.
▪ There was one rather cloudy window.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloudy

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cloudy

Old English cludig "rocky, hilly, full of cliffs;" see cloud (n.). Meaning "of the nature of clouds" is recorded from c.1300; meaning "full of clouds" is late 14c.; that of "not clear" is from 1580s. Figurative sense of "gloomy" is late 14c. Related: Cloudiness; cloudily.

Wiktionary
cloudy

a. 1 Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast. 2 Not transparent or clear. 3 Uncertain; unclear.

WordNet
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]

Wikipedia
Cloudy (song)

"Cloudy" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966). It was co-written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of the Seekers; that band later covered it on their 1967 album Seekers Seen in Green. The Cyrkle released a version of the song on their 1966 debut album, Red Rubber Ball. The title track, Red Rubber Ball, was also written by the duo of Woodley/Simon.

Usage examples of "cloudy".

Though the floor had a cloudy presence when viewed from below, it was clear when Adele looked down.

Beyond a screen of balsams and budding maple trees, Sturgeon Lake was a silver glimmer beneath a cloudy sky.

As the prostate gland becomes more irritated and inflamed from the natural progress of the disease, or from the irritation caused by the passage of instruments, or the employment of strong, harsh, stimulating diuretics, the urine becomes cloudy, and still later is found to have deposited during the night in the chamber utensil a quantity of thick, tenacious, and usually offensive mucus.

It ran across the cloudy vault as though the very sky were being ripped apart, rolling in mighty echoes here and there before it died away.

This container held a different enzymatic solution, a cloudy soup biologically tailored to seek and destroy fat nodules, blood, and any stray strands of connective tissue.

In the fits cited above, Dostoyevsky noted with precision the disturbing symptoms characteristic of the obsessive cloudy state after the fit.

The yellow petal-limbs had darkened noticeably at the edges and along the center creases, and the secondary lensless eyes in a row between the walking limbs were turning cloudy.

Like the microcircuitry that operated automatic doors and the faint, characteristic hum of air conditioning, it hovered momentarily within touching distance of his mind, then retreated again into the cloudy memory of white pain.

In spite of it all, Rhion slept for hours, a breathless uncomfortable sleep on the eight-inch beam, tormented by cloudy dreams, while, unable to smoke, unable to pace, Sara fidgeted her way through endless games of solitaire and her father covered all the plaster within his considerable arm reach in a scrawled carpet of numerological abracadabra.

For another thing, the message often could be applicable to many similar products, so customers are dazzled by the creative approach, but the specific application remains cloudy.

Mount Rainier, an extraordinarily beautiful volcanic peak some fifty miles from the city, blew up in 1963, but nobody in Seattle is aware of this yet because the weather has been pretty cloudy.

The populous heronry in Fresh Pond meadows has wellnigh broken up, but still a pair or two haunt the old home, as the gypsies of Ellangowan their ruined huts, and every evening fly over us riverwards, clearing their throats with a hoarse hawk as they go, and, in cloudy weather.

There were pies and puddings, flans and flummeries, saffron seedcakes, cloudy white bread and soft yellow butter, raspberries, pears, strawberries and honeyed figs, creamy curd, truffles, and crystal goblets encircling dark wine.

The Cloudy Morning was a semiofficial off-duty tavern for the Guard, a traditional place for winding down at the end of a long shift.

Alpheus rushed behind,-- As an eagle pursuing A dove to its ruin Down the streams of the cloudy wind.