cloudy

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective lacking definite form or limits; - H.T.Moore
  2. adjective full of or covered with clouds
  3. adjective (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

nebulose, nebulous

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