cloudy

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

Adjective

  1. Covered with or characterised by clouds.

    Synonyms: clouded overcast

    Antonyms: cloudless noncloudy unclouded uncloudy

  2. Not transparent or clear.
    • […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless. - 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time:

    1. (of fruit juice) Containing pith

  3. Uncertain; unclear.
  4. Using or relating to cloud computing.
    • a cloudy infrastructure
  5. shady; sketchy; suspicious
  6. Having cloudlike markings.
    • cloudy marble

Origin

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.

Forms

cloudier cloudiest clowdy

Related

cloud ceiling cloud cover

Derived

cloudily cloudiness cloudywing cloudy wing virus noncloudy uncloudy