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English
Etymology
From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)
- Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
- Synonym: clouded
- Antonyms: cloudless, noncloudy, unclouded, uncloudy
- Not transparent or clear.
2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time:[…] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.
- (of fruit juice) Containing pith
- Uncertain; unclear.
- (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.
a cloudy infrastructure
- (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious
- Having cloudlike markings.
cloudy marble
Derived terms
Translations
covered with or characterised by clouds
- Afrikaans: bewolk
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: غائم (ḡāʔim)
- Armenian: ամպամած (hy) (ampamac)
- Assamese: ডাৱৰীয়া (daworia)
- Asturian: nubláu, nublosu
- Azerbaijani: buludlu, tutqun (az)
- Basque: hodeitsu
- Belarusian: хма́рны (xmárny), пахму́рны (paxmúrny)
- Bikol Central:
- Bikol Legazpi: madampog
- Bikol Naga: mapanganuron
- Breton: koumoulek (br)
- Bulgarian: о́блачен (bg) (óblačen), зао́блачен (bg) (zaóblačen)
- Catalan: ennuvolat (ca), nuvolós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Gan: 烏陰天 / 乌阴天 (u im thien)
- Mandarin: 多雲 / 多云 (zh) (duōyún)
- Cornish: komolek
- Czech: oblačný, zamračený
- Danish: overskyet, skyet
- Dutch: bewolkt (nl)
- Elfdalian: muolin
- Esperanto: nuba (eo)
- Estonian: pilvine
- Faroese: skýggjaður, samdrigin
- Finnish: pilvinen (fi)
- French: nuageux (fr)
- Friulian: nûlat
- Galician: nubrado (gl)
- Georgian: ღრუბლიანი (ɣrubliani)
- German: bewölkt (de), wolkig (de)
- Greek: συννεφιασμένος (el) (synnefiasménos)
- Ancient: συννεφής (sunnephḗs)
- Greenlandic: nuiasoq
- Hawaiian: ʻōmalumalu
- Hebrew: מעונן (me'unan)
- Hindi: मेघाच्छादित (hi) (meghācchādit)
- Hungarian: felhős (hu)
- Icelandic: skýjaður (is)
- Indonesian: berawan (id)
- Ingrian: pilvekäs
- Irish: scamallach, néaltach
- Italian: nuvoloso (it), nuvolo (it) (regional), coperto (it)
- Japanese: 曇りの (ja) (くもりの, kumori no)
- Khiamniungan Naga: êm
- Khmer: មានពពក (mien pɔpɔɔk)
- Korean: 흐리다 (ko) (heurida)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھەوری (hewrî)
- Northern Kurdish: ewrîn (ku) m
- Lao: ພະຍັບ (pha nyap), ຟ່າງ (fāng)
- Latin: nūbilōsus, nūbilus
- Latvian: apmācies, mākoņains
- Lithuanian: debesuotas
- Lombard: nivol (lmo)
- Louisiana Creole French: kouvær, kouvè, kouvèr
- Luxembourgish: bedeckt, wollekeg
- Macedonian: о́блачен (óblačen)
- Malay: mendung (ms)
- Manchu: ᡤᡳᠯᠠᡥᡡᠨ (gilahūn), ᡨᡠᠯᡥᡠᠨ (tulhun)
- Maori: kōngū, kōmaru, kāpuapua, kōruki, whakaipuipu, tukumaru, tukupū, tāmaru
- Middle English: cloudy
- Mòcheno: gahilb
- Mongolian: үүлтэй (üültej)
- Nahuatl: mixxoh
- Navajo: kʼos
- Nepali: बदली (badalī)
- Norman: nouageux
- Northern Sami: balvái
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skyet (no), overskyet (no)
- Nynorsk: skya, overskya
- Occitan: nivolós
- Persian: ابری (fa) (abri)
- Polish: pochmurny (pl) m
- Portuguese: nublado (pt)
- Romanian: înnorat (ro), noros (ro)
- Romansch: nivlus, neblus, nivlous, nüvlus, nivlieu
- Russian: о́блачный (ru) (óblačnyj), па́смурный (ru) (pásmurnyj)
- Sardinian: annuadu
- Scots: drumlie
- Scottish Gaelic: sgòthach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: облачан
- Roman: oblačan (sh)
- Shor: пулуттығ (puluttığ)
- Sicilian: nuvulusu (scn), nivulusu (scn)
- Slovak: oblačný
- Slovene: oblačen (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: mróčelaty, mróčałkaty
- Spanish: nublado (es), nublo (es) (Latin America), nuboso (es), anubarrado, anubado
- Sundanese: reueuk
- Swedish: molnig (sv)
- Tagalog: (literally) maulap
- Talysh: avə
- Thai: มีเมฆ (mee mâyk)
- Turkish: bulutlu (tr), kapalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: хма́рний (xmárnyj)
- Urdu: ابری (ur) (abri), ابر آلود (abr-ālūd)
- Venetan: nuvołoxo, nùvoło, nùgoło
- Vietnamese: có mây
- Welsh: cymylog (cy)
- Yiddish: וואָלקנדיק (volkndik)
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not transparent; not clear
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English clūdiġ; equivalent to cloud + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cloudy
- Covered with or characterised by clouds; clouded.
- Not transparent or clear; murky, gloomy.
- (rare) Inspiring dread; scary, frightening.
- (rare) Featuring rocks; rocky, stony.
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