cloudful

Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.

Adjective

  1. Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
    • From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder...
    • Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?" - 1915, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete...
    • Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […] - 1923, Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923:
  2. Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid.
    • His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like." - 1847, New Quarterly Review; Or, Home, Foreign and Colonial Journal:

Origin

From Middle English cloudeful, equivalent to cloud + -ful.

Forms

more cloudful most cloudful

Noun

  1. The amount contained in a cloud.
    • One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him! - 1848, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling Reminiscences, page 52:
    • A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree. - 2014, John Dickson Carr, Most Secret:

Origin

From cloud + -ful.

Forms

cloudfuls cloudsful