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单词 cloudy
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Definition of cloudy in English:

cloudy

adjectivecloudiest, cloudier ˈklaʊdiˈklaʊdi
  • 1(of the sky or weather) covered with or characterized by clouds.

    a very grey, cloudy day
    Example sentencesExamples
    • By contrast, the extreme north, badly affected by snow last week, may escape with dry, cloudy weather.
    • Cold and cloudy weather is forecast for the week ahead.
    • The canal was misty, and the sky was cloudy, making it very dark.
    • A cloudy sky makes it exceptionally dark out this morning.
    • I stared up at the dark cloudy skies trying to find the moon.
    • Interestingly, the cloudy sky and cool weather in the open ground of the school, where the event was held, added to its serenity.
    • The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
    • The sky was cloudy and dull, but the forecast was not for rain.
    • Weather conditions were helpful, with some low temperatures and cloudy skies.
    • They flew through the cloudy sky toward the much more populated part of the country.
    • The weather forecast for Delhi and neighbouring areas foretells generally cloudy skies with rain and thunder showers and heavy showers in some areas.
    • Depending on the mood and intention of the photographer, a cloudy sky can be printed dark and moody or light and airy.
    • Further, the weather there is often foggy and skies are cloudy.
    • The skies were cloudy but that didn't matter I was going to see the sea…
    • In the slightly cloudy weather, students swarm around parade floats, helping put on finishing touches before our high school takes off on its annual homecoming parade.
    • His landscapes are equally melancholy, often painted under grey cloudy skies.
    • A cloudy sky or an occasional shower can make the task of small farmers without drying and storage facilities a nightmarish experience.
    • Since then we've had cloudy weather with brief showers every evening, making it virtually impossible to get first cutting hay out of the field.
    • We sat on the riverbank and worked on our raft, occasionally getting splattered with rain from a half-hearted cloudy sky.
    • The Meteorological Department has forecast partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain.
    Synonyms
    overcast, clouded, clouded over, overclouded
    dark, darkened, grey, black, leaden, dull, murky
    sombre, dismal, dreary, cheerless, heavy, gloomy, dim, louring
    sunless, starless
    hazy, misty, foggy
    threatening, menacing, promising rain
  • 2(of a liquid) not transparent or clear.

    the pond water is slightly cloudy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cloudy liquid is actually the spores of a fungus.
    • On the table in front of them is a skull in a jar of cloudy liquid.
    • Next, she dug through her father's cabinets until she found a glass bottle filled with a slightly cloudy transparent fluid.
    • In it was some cloudy water he'd taken from a stream for his high school biology class.
    • They could eat roast beef, drink warm cloudy beer, recite Shakespearian love sonnets, and perhaps even do a bit of morris dancing.
    • This Dutch cloudy wheat beer sings of quality: balanced, refreshing and topped off with flavours of cloves.
    • Impetigo caused by staph bacteria is characterized by large blisters containing fluid that is first clear, then cloudy.
    • She thrust her brush into one of the glasses of cloudy water.
    • The beer was cloudy and warm, but it was serving its purpose, and already it had taken the edge off his thirst.
    • Forcing herself to open her eyes, through the cloudy water she could see the surface, a pleasant sapphire glow, growing farther and farther away.
    • If the water is cloudy after 30 minutes, repeat the procedure.
    • She sipped a little of the cloudy liquid, grimacing at the flavor.
    • Then strain the cloudy water from the rice - this removes most of the starch.
    • I stared gloomily down at the gray lumps floating in the watery, cloudy liquid.
    • At this point, the cloudy liquid becomes clear and less viscous, and now resembles other liquids.
    • If the water is too cloudy to see the label on the far side of a clear bottle, it needs to be filtered first.
    • He held a test-tube between me and the light, and I noted the cloudy or muddy liquid it contained.
    • For one thing, the once clear water was now cloudy and a murky purple shade.
    • Scientists had noted that during a sting, scorpions expel a clear liquid followed by a cloudy one.
    • A cloudy, Belgian wheat beer that includes coriander and curaçao, it is incredibly refreshing.
    Synonyms
    murky, muddy, milky, dirty, clouded, dull, opaque, non-transparent, emulsified, opalescent, turbid
    North American riled, roily
    literary roiled
    1. 2.1 (of a colour) having white as a constituent.
      cloudy reds and blues and greens
      Example sentencesExamples
      • From under a thick, tangled fall of white hair, cloudy blue eyes peered out.
      • His eyes, she noted, were a cloudy blue and there were circles beneath them.
      • Of course, a very large proportion of this rubbish consists of his cloudy blue bottles, giving it an unnecessary bulk.
      • It was a round globe about the size of an orange, a perfect sphere, of a cloudy red colour.
      • They had finally reached an old door, behind boxes full of merchandise, which was a light blue with a hint of white, an almost cloudy color.
      • Across the map, forty-nine red dots stood out against cloudy blue.
      • The apples from China, with whitish yellow pulp and a cloudy red and striped appearance, are the latest to hit the city.
      • Her eyes were that cloudy kind of gray that was blue in some lights.
      • Inside he saw another one of his friends, a tall scraggly girl with cloudy blue eyes.
      • Mixing the two causes a violent chemical reaction, producing a cloudy tan potion which gives the user the power of summoning lightning.
      • It was a polished cloudy blue stone on a woven hair thong around his neck that he never removed.
      • But there was a teardrop shaped stone the size of a pebble, colored the cloudy blue of a stormy sea.
      • He turned around and two cloudy purple eyes pierced through her.
      • The water is an eerie, cloudy blue, and as hot as bath water.
    2. 2.2 (of a person's eyes) misted with tears.
      she stared at him, her eyes cloudy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He pressed Pause, and sat there, his eyes getting cloudy.
      • Melissa felt her vision getting cloudy as tears began to well in her eyes.
      • I couldn't tell who it was; my eyes were far too cloudy.
      • She blinked her cloudy eyes, a hand drifting downwards towards her abdomen where her body still tingled.
      • ‘You guys’ she began, her eyes becoming cloudy with tears.
      • Anlë let his cloudy green-gold eyes rest on the three, then spoke.
      • Lee caught sight of a tear escaping from his cloudy eyes and leaving a glistening trail down his pale cheeks.
      • She felt her vision grow cloudy again as tears built up, her eyes beginning to sparkle.
      • She leaned over the banister, watching the entire ordeal with cloudy eyes.
      • All she saw was him, tears shining in his cloudy blue eyes.
      • Adrienne looked up at him, eyes cloudy with tears.
      • His eyes were cloudy, tears on the verge of falling down his aged face.
      Synonyms
      tearful, teary, weepy, weeping, lachrymose
      moist, misty, watery, rheumy
      blurred, blurry, unfocused
    3. 2.3 Uncertain; unclear.
      the issue becomes more cloudy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It had been so long since she had danced that her memory of it was cloudy, but her body hadn't forgotten.
      • I was about 8 years old when we did this, so my memory is a bit cloudy… however, I'm sure he brought happiness to a lot of people.
      • Off and on through this time, odd figures passed before his bed, and he saw them with the same cloudy uncertainty as before.
      • At last recollection, he had a fiancée, but her name resides in the cloudy memory.
      • Shame lingers rather longer, mainly as your mother can be left behind at home when you head back up to Dublin, but the vague cloudy memories of your behavior, sadly, cannot.
      Synonyms
      vague, blurred, fuzzy, indistinct, imprecise, foggy, hazy, confused, muddled, indefinite, lacking definition, nebulous, obscure, unformed

Derivatives

  • cloudily

  • adverb ˈklaʊdɪliˈklaʊdəli
    • When he recalls the high school teacher who straightened him out and gave him the ambition to succeed in conventional society, his monologue is so cloudily written that we never get a vivid picture of the father figure.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Moreover, he believed that there are two kinds of truth: a trivial kind, which could be articulated clearly, and a profound kind which could only be spoken about cloudily.
      • The crystal cloudily caught the light from outside and slid from silvery-green to quartz-like almost instantaneously.
      • I stared cloudily into space at the warm colors, a tired sensation waving through my body.
  • cloudiness

  • noun ˈklaʊdɪnəs
    • The eyes of newborn babies are examined for any obvious physical defects, including cross-eyes, cloudiness (a sign of cataracts), and redness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I shake the cloudiness from my mind, quite used to arriving at the war site by now.
      • Despite the cloudiness and the rain, the city's temperature will remain warm in the following week.
      • Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of the water caused by suspended particles.
      • The earliest symptoms are sweating, confusion, a loss of balance, cloudiness of vision and diplopia (double vision).
      • However, the cloudiness of the skies and light pollution from the sodium vapour and fluorescent lamps cut visibility.
      • The warm ocean water alters the normal patterns of cloudiness and rainfall and can influence the movement of weather patterns, potentially affecting weather around the world.

Rhymes

dowdy, Gaudí, howdy, rowdy, Saudi
 
 

Definition of cloudy in US English:

cloudy

adjectiveˈkloudēˈklaʊdi
  • 1(of the sky or weather) covered with or characterized by clouds; overcast.

    next morning was cloudy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They flew through the cloudy sky toward the much more populated part of the country.
    • A cloudy sky makes it exceptionally dark out this morning.
    • Interestingly, the cloudy sky and cool weather in the open ground of the school, where the event was held, added to its serenity.
    • Weather conditions were helpful, with some low temperatures and cloudy skies.
    • A cloudy sky or an occasional shower can make the task of small farmers without drying and storage facilities a nightmarish experience.
    • Further, the weather there is often foggy and skies are cloudy.
    • The Meteorological Department has forecast partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain.
    • The weather forecast for Delhi and neighbouring areas foretells generally cloudy skies with rain and thunder showers and heavy showers in some areas.
    • Since then we've had cloudy weather with brief showers every evening, making it virtually impossible to get first cutting hay out of the field.
    • Depending on the mood and intention of the photographer, a cloudy sky can be printed dark and moody or light and airy.
    • By contrast, the extreme north, badly affected by snow last week, may escape with dry, cloudy weather.
    • I stared up at the dark cloudy skies trying to find the moon.
    • In the slightly cloudy weather, students swarm around parade floats, helping put on finishing touches before our high school takes off on its annual homecoming parade.
    • The sky was cloudy and dull, but the forecast was not for rain.
    • His landscapes are equally melancholy, often painted under grey cloudy skies.
    • The canal was misty, and the sky was cloudy, making it very dark.
    • The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
    • Cold and cloudy weather is forecast for the week ahead.
    • The skies were cloudy but that didn't matter I was going to see the sea…
    • We sat on the riverbank and worked on our raft, occasionally getting splattered with rain from a half-hearted cloudy sky.
    Synonyms
    overcast, clouded, clouded over, overclouded
  • 2(of a liquid) not transparent or clear.

    the pond water is slightly cloudy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They could eat roast beef, drink warm cloudy beer, recite Shakespearian love sonnets, and perhaps even do a bit of morris dancing.
    • In it was some cloudy water he'd taken from a stream for his high school biology class.
    • Then strain the cloudy water from the rice - this removes most of the starch.
    • Impetigo caused by staph bacteria is characterized by large blisters containing fluid that is first clear, then cloudy.
    • On the table in front of them is a skull in a jar of cloudy liquid.
    • He held a test-tube between me and the light, and I noted the cloudy or muddy liquid it contained.
    • She thrust her brush into one of the glasses of cloudy water.
    • At this point, the cloudy liquid becomes clear and less viscous, and now resembles other liquids.
    • This Dutch cloudy wheat beer sings of quality: balanced, refreshing and topped off with flavours of cloves.
    • If the water is cloudy after 30 minutes, repeat the procedure.
    • The beer was cloudy and warm, but it was serving its purpose, and already it had taken the edge off his thirst.
    • Scientists had noted that during a sting, scorpions expel a clear liquid followed by a cloudy one.
    • Next, she dug through her father's cabinets until she found a glass bottle filled with a slightly cloudy transparent fluid.
    • I stared gloomily down at the gray lumps floating in the watery, cloudy liquid.
    • Forcing herself to open her eyes, through the cloudy water she could see the surface, a pleasant sapphire glow, growing farther and farther away.
    • The cloudy liquid is actually the spores of a fungus.
    • If the water is too cloudy to see the label on the far side of a clear bottle, it needs to be filtered first.
    • A cloudy, Belgian wheat beer that includes coriander and curaçao, it is incredibly refreshing.
    • She sipped a little of the cloudy liquid, grimacing at the flavor.
    • For one thing, the once clear water was now cloudy and a murky purple shade.
    Synonyms
    murky, muddy, milky, dirty, clouded, dull, opaque, non-transparent, emulsified, opalescent, turbid
    1. 2.1 (of a color) opaque; having white as a constituent.
      cloudy reds and blues and greens
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They had finally reached an old door, behind boxes full of merchandise, which was a light blue with a hint of white, an almost cloudy color.
      • It was a polished cloudy blue stone on a woven hair thong around his neck that he never removed.
      • He turned around and two cloudy purple eyes pierced through her.
      • From under a thick, tangled fall of white hair, cloudy blue eyes peered out.
      • Mixing the two causes a violent chemical reaction, producing a cloudy tan potion which gives the user the power of summoning lightning.
      • The water is an eerie, cloudy blue, and as hot as bath water.
      • Inside he saw another one of his friends, a tall scraggly girl with cloudy blue eyes.
      • It was a round globe about the size of an orange, a perfect sphere, of a cloudy red colour.
      • His eyes, she noted, were a cloudy blue and there were circles beneath them.
      • The apples from China, with whitish yellow pulp and a cloudy red and striped appearance, are the latest to hit the city.
      • Across the map, forty-nine red dots stood out against cloudy blue.
      • But there was a teardrop shaped stone the size of a pebble, colored the cloudy blue of a stormy sea.
      • Her eyes were that cloudy kind of gray that was blue in some lights.
      • Of course, a very large proportion of this rubbish consists of his cloudy blue bottles, giving it an unnecessary bulk.
    2. 2.2 (of a person's eyes) misted with tears.
      she stared at him, her eyes cloudy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His eyes were cloudy, tears on the verge of falling down his aged face.
      • I couldn't tell who it was; my eyes were far too cloudy.
      • She blinked her cloudy eyes, a hand drifting downwards towards her abdomen where her body still tingled.
      • She felt her vision grow cloudy again as tears built up, her eyes beginning to sparkle.
      • ‘You guys’ she began, her eyes becoming cloudy with tears.
      • Lee caught sight of a tear escaping from his cloudy eyes and leaving a glistening trail down his pale cheeks.
      • She leaned over the banister, watching the entire ordeal with cloudy eyes.
      • He pressed Pause, and sat there, his eyes getting cloudy.
      • Anlë let his cloudy green-gold eyes rest on the three, then spoke.
      • Melissa felt her vision getting cloudy as tears began to well in her eyes.
      • All she saw was him, tears shining in his cloudy blue eyes.
      • Adrienne looked up at him, eyes cloudy with tears.
      Synonyms
      tearful, teary, weepy, weeping, lachrymose
    3. 2.3 Uncertain; unclear.
      the issue becomes more cloudy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Off and on through this time, odd figures passed before his bed, and he saw them with the same cloudy uncertainty as before.
      • I was about 8 years old when we did this, so my memory is a bit cloudy… however, I'm sure he brought happiness to a lot of people.
      • It had been so long since she had danced that her memory of it was cloudy, but her body hadn't forgotten.
      • Shame lingers rather longer, mainly as your mother can be left behind at home when you head back up to Dublin, but the vague cloudy memories of your behavior, sadly, cannot.
      • At last recollection, he had a fiancée, but her name resides in the cloudy memory.
      Synonyms
      vague, blurred, fuzzy, indistinct, imprecise, foggy, hazy, confused, muddled, indefinite, lacking definition, nebulous, obscure, unformed
 
 
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